Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-12
[RUCK-GOOD ROADS
TOUR HERE MONDAY
z, Route Through State, Will
Lunch at Hotel du Pont; All
Makes Represented.

Plans for the ship by truck-good roads
tour to be held during national tour week,
Nav 1922. under the auspices OF the snip
" Truck~Good Roads Tour Bureau,
md conducted by leading Philadelphia
.rurk. trailer and tractor distributors. are
practically completed. The tour Will
oass through the State of Delaware from
Monday morning until Thursday morn
ng. More than half of the tour Will be
n Delaware passing through sections
that are in need of improved transporta-
ton facilities.
There have been received to date,
entries of 2I different vehicles represent
ing Is different concerns some oil them
entering two vehicles Those to partlcl-
pate in the tour will include: Packard
truck. Graham truck, keystone truck,
Sterling truck, Trailmobile trailer, klsset
truck, Rowe truck, Napoleon truck, Day
Elder truck, Traylor truck, Troy trailer,
Miami trailer, Bethlehem truck, Paige
truck, International Harvester truck, IN
addition to a gasoline service tank and a
road-oil tank mounted on n truck chassis.
Other entries are expected TO be made.
There will also be half-dozen touring
EARS, carrying officials, speakers ana
committees. None of the trucks will be
over two and half tons capacity and
practically all of them will be equipped
with pneumatic tires.
The complete tour is 36312 miles
long. and an average speed OF 10 miles per
hour will be maintained. Prominent pub
he speakers in each main center where
stops will be made, will speak in addition
10 several motor truck experts, who VIII
20 with the tour, including X. l.. Gum
lnIns OF the Packard factory; Neil Lang,
of the PENNSYLVANIA Farmer, and n. u.
Metz. OF the Commercial Car journal
Albert :. Oswald of the Traylor Truck
Company. will be tour director.
The first stop will be at Wilmington,
Monday noon, Wilmington time, where
they will be received by the Wilmington
Automobile Dealers Association and sd
dressed bv Philadelphia Statistician r. j.
Cattell, Elwood G. Ulrich, president Of
the Dealers Association, and the truck
experts. 4 luncheon will be held at the
du Pont Hotel.
From Wilmington they pass through
st Georges, Odessa and stop at smyrna
about $50 Monday where Walter q.
Hoffecker. a member Of the town board
AMI Mayor Henry Anthony viii welcome
the tour at a thirtv-minutc stop The
tour will arrive nj Dover Monday even
ING about ) o'clock, stopping nj Park
at the Richardson Hotel. where public
meeting will be held in the evening. adj
dressed hv Mayor Arlev b. Magce, and
Governor Townsend, If the Legislature IS
IN session. The Dover Band will provide
music.
The tour leaves Dover at 80 Tuesday
morning, passing through Camden, Rlslng
Sun and Magnolia, where the tour speakers
will address the public. At Frederica
about @ o'clock Mavor Hocy will preside.
The tour will arrive at Milford in time for
lunch and public meeting will be held,
presided over by ]. L. Pierce, city clerk,
and Others They will arrive at George
town about 2.30 Tuesday where DIR. John
II. Hammond, president Of Council, and
D. l.. LAYTON will speak The next stop
Is Scaford, arriving about 5 Tuesday.
Tor an all-night stop, and an evening
meeting, including addresses by 4. Z.
Thomson. president of the Boosters
Club. Capt. j. II. AskTidge, mayor, and
Prof. Alexander Harrington. They leave
Seaford at $50 Wednesday stopping at
Bridgevillc, for a meeting TO be presided
over by II. 7. Cannon, a prominent busl-
ness man From there the tour proceeds
through Greenwood, Pennington 10 Har-
rngton, arriving about ii Wednesday
where Mayor W J. Satterield as we'll as
others. speak. They then 90 through Eel
ton. Canterbury, Camden and back t
Dover for lunch, then on to Middletown
arriving about 4 Wednesday. where May
or ". s Letherbury presides and intro
duces the speakers. From there the toul
continues through Mt. Pleasant TO New
ark, arriving about e and spending the
night there.
At Newark a meeting will be held pre-
sided over by ". b. Frazier, and effort
are being made to secure DIR, :. {
Mitchell, president OF Delaware Stat
College, and Secretary of State E. c. John
son to speak.
Thursday morning they leave Newarl
earlv, arriving at Elkton about ) for ;
short stop; proceeding through Nortl
East, Md. Bayview, Zion, Calvert, Risin
sun, where Charles ;. Pyle, president O
Council, presides The tour then goe
through Calaria and Mechanics Grove
Quarryville, Pa.
From there the points at which tn
tour stops include: Lancaster, HinklC
town. Downingtown, West Chester an
back TO Philadelphia Saturday night.
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