Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21
FACTORS and accessories
Keep Up Interest in Ea-
hibition at Commercial
Museum Building
AND is 4 FEATURE
|sperts and Laymen Look
Over Varied Types OF
Machines for City and
Rural Work
BY SPICK HALL,

'ONTRARY to many predictions the
notortruck show, waving it's pro-
|essye ship by truck banner, does not
FeSent itself in the nature of an anti
max to the passenger car exhibition
pat passed off the stage at the Com
|aclal Museum Building. Thirty
Purth and Spruce streets, last Satur-
evening. On the contrary the truck
bow, held in the same, is being Just
largely attended and as enthusiastic =
Flly welcomed by Philadelphia au-
bnObile public as its more luxuri-
Us 81 predecessor last week.
While much of the beauty of con
ftuctlon is necessarily lacking at the
uCS show. the mechanical developments
tAe last year are proving just as
vractlve even to the layman as the
assehger machine exhibition. Ts the
tpert there never has been show
"a, ahorded such vast opportunity to
'uqy progress in the automotive in
uSry as that now being conducted un
uC auspices of the Philadelphia
vior truck Association. co operating
'"a the trade association.
Same Committees
iue same committee of the trade as
mAlion who had charge of the pas
sNSr car show and of which Louis
pocE, IS chairman, is working with
spycial show committee of the truck
s,'Orlatlon composed of II. j. Ber :
president of that association, as
IaHnlan W. II. Metcalf, secretary of
truck association, and j. Harry
[nnSLliaker' may ker'. former president of the
TUCK association.
ine work of these two committees
eeen exceedingly tedious, but the
lalS nave justified and rewarded their
XE'' AZ OF the lavish decorations
u which the museum was arrayed
wepE nave been retained and the
4u regiment band is still on the
every day and every night lending
Ns irresistible air of enchantment ia
bahSn ow tAac was one of the predomi
hMtisSn' FEATURES OF the passenger car ex
Knit, week there are seventy seven ex
nsI", including forty nine different
,,m 'S OF true ks, six different makes of
~ t,dn and garden tractors, three makes
b,aa ama"ilerS, three body exhibits. and
IL Nj ruck building units, this being
Eacb b'apseSt y individual representation Of
ehiclopt these classes of motor driven
III tbivvS ever displayed in one building
|erent OyLiit MN IN addition to thirteen diff
eAnlolts of accessories.
M Variety of Exhibits
eucl nle kt great variety of exhibits in the
|NtIy SIa Tglu make it impossible to cor
hleles ot teSlend ynId from light delivery We
up Ia fh \, 100 and 500 pounds capacity
n tonu .ne dreadnought type of eight tS
/. iorone iSuS capacity, built almost us heavily
where SVa'uYpllyes, ~ and capable of going
t6esaa locomotive could not travel, II
D, bioh vehicles that have opened mr.
lsetofour%S US and hyways that have
|aye STe Ssde been inaccessible, and they
tFslStnu.a tremendous influence on statS
ssi ssiIS.ureS ~ res throughout the country MT 'a, n,
seu,iO. on local government bodies in
NS.iSuas;, llmmense appropriations fn,
kousSsa Ssa',1lpg improvements. They bay,
ellE y Spe small hamlet aud outpost
Iae W. s'rciylliza ti6ns into direct % ane
'aiunlcation with the iarresi