Shipping trucks in cases half their size
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Shipping trucks in cases half their size
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Shipping Trucks in Cases Half Their Size
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SHIPPING motor-trucks overseas in cases whose vol
ume was little more than half those of the trucks when
Dut together, was & task accomplished by our Motor
"Fransport Corps. |
When these vehicles were
first sont overseas they were
erated in much the same |
manner as a piano. With the
wheels in place and the top
folded down, they took up a |
volume of 1,166 cubic feet. |
Then shipping bottoms be-
came scarce at exactly the
same time that the need for |
trucks became greatest. The
Government told the truck-makers
that the volume must be reduced.
They, in turn, suggested that the
truck be entirely knocked down,
with wheels, axles, and even the
motor taken off and blocked up
on the base of the crate as shown
in the illustration. This done,
the space was reduced to 302
cubic feet. The comparative
volumes assembled and knocked
down are shown by dotted lines.
16 any truck exporter had sug-
gested before the war that such a
saving could be made, he would
have been laughed at. The sav-
ing effected thus points the way
to economies possible for the
commercial exporter of tomorrow.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-06
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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31
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 6, 1919
