Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31

touch with all the truck dealers in
their territories. The company then
has direct Representatives in South
America at Buenos Aires, Argentina,
and at Victoria, British Columbia in
Canada. A special agent at San
Francisco handles all the trade to
the Orient and Mexico.
All these agencies are doing big
business, just recently the San
Francisco manager having placed an
? Iorder for between 800 to 1000 trucks
to be delivered before next June in
the Orient-China, Japan and ST.
IBERIA. Friday of this last week the
company received an enormous or
der for shipments to South America.
At New York the Hebb Motors
company has connections with an
exporting company for trade in Eu-
rope. A number of trucks have
been shipped to France and Eng
land.
In Texas Field.
lust recently the first Patriot
truck was sold to an oil company
at Ranger, Texas, and since then six
or seven car loads have been sent
for use in the oil fields of Texas and
| Oklahoma.
The Patriot truck was put through
severe tests and it withstood them
so we'll that the other orders imme-
diately followed.
When one comes to realize that
the Patriot truck is practically a
brand new article on the markets
and that all this trade has been
built up in less than two years, he
is astounded with the success with
which it has met. He also sees that
it has proven tremendously success
full to have met with such a ready
response from American business.
The first Patriot truck was built
while A. G. Hebb was manufacture
ing delivery car bodies at factory
at Tenth and Vine streets two years
ago.
The first machine is still In use
on farm in Kansas. From the
time this one was put out, the Pa
triot has proven so popular and sub
stantial that the little factory at
Tenth and Vine was found to be en-
tirely too small to turn out the pro-
ducts as fast as the demand was
growing. The Hebb Motors COM
pany was then formed and a large
tract of II acres on the western edge
of Havelock was secured for a fac
tory site.
Last spring the building was be-
gun and was completed in the fall
SO that the machinery could be in
stalled and the manufacture of
trucks could be started before the
winter set in.
The building is situated between
the main lines of the Rock Island
and the Burlington railroads, af-
fording excellent shipping facilities.
1t has 800 feet of shipping docks on
the Burlington line.
The Main Factory.
The main factory building is 24O
by 420 feet in size, two stories in
height, and has a total of 185,0O0
square feet of floor space. 1t was
erected at a cost of half million
dollars and is one of the largest ex-
elusive truck factories in the coun-
try.
1t embodies all that is modern,
both in the way of working equip
ment and facilities and conveniences
for employees.
The Hebb Motor company fac
tory has a productive capacity of
Is trucks a day which amounts to
practically 5000 or. 10000 machines
annually. The patriot truck is built
in two sizes, one and one-half tons
and two and one-half tons capacity.
All styles OF bodies are made right
in the factory. From funeral hearses
to big oil tanks are made. Bus bodies
and mechanical dumping trucks are
also turned out. Already the COM
pany has supplied number Of oil
tankers to the National Refining
company of Cleveland, |