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Possibilities of the motor truck: Remarkable strength and excellent speed characterize motor trucks like that in the above illustration (Duplex, Lansing, Michigan). The wooden wheels are feats of engineering, no less than the powerful motor and rigid frame. The maximum load that may be carried is measured by bulk rather than by pounds.

Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry251919amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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850 AMERICAN FORESTRY of the country is a conspicuous one. A special make of wagon has been provided for the baker, butcher, grocer, huckster, ice cream vender, fishmonger, flower seller, and a list of others almost interminable. Most of these are specialized in bodies rather than in gear. Each has its boxes, shelving, and compartments built to meet the user's peculiar needs. Much pine, fir, cedar, spruce, hemlock, cypress, and redwood are worked into such tops and bodies. Accompanying these softwoods, and used in the same way, are cottonwood, basswood, gum, poplar, elm, sycamore, hackberry, beech, buckeye, and other hardwoods. Much ash and some hickory are em- now as they supplied it before railroads captured the long-distance travel. No one man invented the vehicle, but many a man has made improvements on models already existing. Patents by thousands have been placed on record, nearly three thousand patents for springs alone. There are patents on hubs, axles, tops, and on nearly every other piece and parcel of a vehicle. These indicate growth and develop- ment, though the first vehicle made by man was so long ago that no record of it exists. Some of the ancients used sleds when they could not make wheels strong enough to carry the loads, and it was dry sledding in the deserts of
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POSSIBILITIES OF THE MOTOR TRUCK Remarkable strength and excellent speed characterize motor trucks like that in the above illustration (Duplex, Lansing, Michigan). The wooden wheels are feats of engineering, no less than the powerful motor and the rigid frame. The maximum load that may be carried is measured by bulk rather tiian by pounds. ployed for bows and other parts of the tops of such business wagons and over all the tent or cover is stretch- ed as a protection against snow and rain. The horse-drawn stage coach, famous in the days of Charles Dickens' American tour, and later in the western experiences of Mark Twain, has nearly gone out of use; but not so with the city omnibus and the taxi. These vehicles are in the thick of business and they are largely of wood. They are passenger carriers, as the old stage-coach and thoroughbraces were, and forests supply the material Africa and in the land of the Hittites. Yet those people knew about sleds and some of the loads hauled on them surpassed the records of the largest sled loads of logs in Michigan and Wisconsin. The ancient people had wheels also, and they had many kinds and sizes. Some were nothing more than wooden rollers like modern house movers use, and they worked in the same way. They had wheels on axles, some of them heavy for oxen, others light for horses. They made built-up wheels such as we make now. A rock carving in Syria shows a chariot

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