Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-09
Richmond Automobile News|
MANY MOTOR TRUCKS
OVER 100000 M|LERs
Old FalIncy That Vehicles Good for
Only Five Years Is
DisprOycn.
MANY SEE lo-yEAE SERVICE
Ono White Puts in 100000 Miles,
.tnOt her Goes I6J,O0D. Tliiri
Makes Half Million-i0O,000 Is
Only Nominal Mileage.

oDly NO1nlnNi NlHctSc.
Five years from now. this motor
truck will be of the roads. hence IL
must also be off our books
Thus. arbitrarily. the cost account
an; was formerly wont TO give amy
nrw motor truck which his employer
might purchase five years TO tci!. ue-
preciatc and finally disappear, after
having returned itH original cost
subsequent upkccp and Il udy sur
plus for profit.
So far so good. But nvc years
later the error In such an intcX!ble
cost system became apparent. Tor the
motor truck. II II was "a good truck.
refused 10 retire from active duty
despite the fact that theoretically.
its working days were over.
In fact, so many trucks that sent
into service ten years ago are sun
working and earning. years after
they have written their original coKi
on the books. that u few cost ac-
countan,s have chosen 20 measure
sycarA. Age yielded 10 mileage as the
unit OF incusurc--and 10000 miles
was considered liberal allowance
for a truck.
But once more matters were com
idica,cd by the good trucks. for SO
many ri them rounded IN" lo",Vpp-
mie post and kept right on EoinE
that the record ceased 10 excite Won
derncrt For instance. the w n'tc
Co. OF cleveland. ip It's annual 'ahu-
lation OF letters from owners testify
which have exceeded 100000 miles
and are still on the roads. announces
that 533 whites still! IN service are
known to have Travelled loeopc
miles. 100 additional whites nave
exceeded 10000 miles: ninety-tnur
are somewhere on the zoe. uoq-to 800
emile lap, while twcnty-hvc trucks
have forged ahead OF the ncld. Well
beyond the 300.GU0-milc mark. The
figures IN each group are approx
Luat.ly double those revealed By the
1919 tabu!aticn.
Many businesses Represented.
In half hundred lines al business
and In all sections OF the country
thcsc veteran :.,"i"r trucks nave
iIors of the heavy duty type We
with uimbic delivery trucks for
places o: distinction on the honor
From san Francisco Charles W;
Dixon. Of the Dixon Transfer aud
storage Company. writes Thvo" OF
,arh. one is5.o0o miles aud the
ether over 100000 mics. This last
truck had done :nG,Cor miles for ia.
standard OF Company heior" We
l,-,n in continuous service for us.
running frcm north 10 south of Cali
iornin"
one Of quartet, Of Whites has
collapsed 100000 miles FOR tho Coium-
bus tphio) Bread COMPANY. y two
ION supply truck has rolled up 3d.
piug Company Of Aberdeen. Wash
iuEtons The Fuller Dry Cleaning
COMPANY. Of Cleveland. White users
for twelve years. have one dailvcry
truck that has rounded out 100000
miles. Two more tied NJ 10000 miles
aud another that has completed $780,.
Whole Fleets 100000 MiIers.
Numerous instances might be cited
OF whole fleets Of lo0.000-milc trucks
a, work in single installations. In
the delivery feet OF G!mbel Bros.
New York. are twenty-five Whites
tina, have done 100000 miles. Tween
Schulzc Baking Company. OF Chica-
go. Cincinnati. Kansas City ana
omaha, are 100, 900 m!icrs. Every
uni, in the original nee, OF the Brad
Eelcs. has gone 100000 miles. The
White Transit Company. OF Ply
in the vicinity OF Wilkes barr wi;h
a feet or White trucks. thirteen OF
which are 100000 milcrs, nine having
started toward the 100000 mile post.
One hundred thousand is only u
nom nal mil caGc for buses That
mark has been passed by fifteen
Whites owned by the limerick Mo-
Pa: by ten Whites Of the Twin city
Motor Bus Company, ChchaiiS.
Wash: by five OF the Highway Tran
sit Company's trucks at Canton.
Ohio; hse Of The Madero- Fresno
stages at MADEIRA. Cal. and others.
Ten-Ycnr-Ofd; sun Going.
oihcials Of the GAINESVILLE tohio)
bility and durability or their len
year-old White that has rolled. UP
i25,ooo miles and is: sim in service
are still working early and late for
w. J.. Southworth. Cleveland grocer.
In the meat business seven 100000
Provision Company's fleet. The five
ton White purchased by Peter Nc
Cabe. building material dealer. was
,ns insl hea Xibs AMY truck TO star.
months later. Mr.. McCabe added a
thrce-ton White. Today each truck
has licked off more than 100. 900
miles.
Two veteran trucks have pullcd
;M 10000 miles OF hiliy, coai-min-
All three of the Whites purchasci hv
The Hermann & Grace Co. OF brook.
lyn. sheet metal contractors. hnv6
reached the high mileage class.
few other scattering owners of inn
oo0-milc Whites. selected NJ random
are: the Tuolnninc I.um5er Company
VI McticSto, I'll. the liAverty Firm,
ture Company. OF Atlanta Ga. ana
othcr Southcrn cities: the Eherhardi
Hays Co, OF Wichita, Hans. thc
Henry J.. MAYER Music House ~
Paris. TEX: Baum's Home Of Flow.
crs, knoNyiilc. Tenn: the Memphis
News Srimitar P'''
1t would he possible TO On IN
ramiiEinS into numerous lines of
business and extending the nnm,,or
OF examines In each group hut TO
exhaust the list would carrv ~
story 10 forbidding lengths. i,or II
rs still! growing. from day TO dav
and week to week "''
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