Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Marine Review (Cleveland, OH), June 1934, p. 8

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Do you warm to the feel of FINE MACHINERY ? Every inch of this new flagship for your Elwell-Parker fleet sparkles with all the family traditions of dependability and correctness in industrial power truck building: begin- ning more than 25 years ago with Electrics; more recently with Gas-Electrics; and now with a far-reaching line of straight Gas Trucks. Run your eye over these clean, sturdy @ lines. Note the clearance beneath the / platform—nothing under there to catch e V1 AY e ] 7 i e ] c or foul as the Truck goes over toe-plate @@¢@ Ad to gang-plank or into freight car, or rides over the top of a ramp. ANDLE the controls of this new Elwell-Parker Gas Truck — feel its instant response to the starter; its unquestioning obedience to the throttle. You will appreciate it as an almost human helper—just as does Marine Terminals Co. of San Francisco, whose owners tell us that they ran an Elwell-Parker Gas Lift Truck 14 hours a day, every day, for 14 months— with not a cent of outlay except for gasoline and oil. Fourteen hours a day includes heavy overtime and night work. These new Gas Trucks retain all the valuable characteristics of elec- tric operation for which Elwell-Parker has been recognized for years. In addition, Gas Trucks embody various exclusive features of their own, when built as Elwell-Parker builds. Consider these: — 1. Simple in construction. 5. Super-abundant in power. 2. Speedy in pick-up; exceptionally 6. Stable in travel. powerful for climbing steep ramps Las t i fi : and always ready fc go. Onstant in per ormance; always egg) : ready when needed, whether for 3. Quiet in operation. routine haulage or for emergency 4. Rugged in unit design. service. The Elwell-Parker Sales Engineer nearest you will gladly give you other operat- ing figures, suggesting ways by which you, too, can systematically handle heavy cargoes with a surprising reduction in tie-up time. Just address The Elwell- Parker Electric Company, 4213 St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland. Mew WELL: PARKER, rar 8 MARINE REVIEW—June, 1934

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