Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1920 — GOVERNMET DELIVERING TRUCKS TO INDIANA [ARTICLE]

GOVERNMET DELIVERING TRUCKS TO INDIANA

Thirteen large four-wheel drive trucks passed through here tins Monday morning for Chicago to Indianapolis. The trucks were m charge of Joek LaMasters, who is the chief of motor transports of, tbe Indiana State Highway commission The thirteen , trucks which passed thru here today and the six which preceded them last week are a part of one hundred’fifty trucks which the government is turning over to the state of Indiana. Fifty of the one hundred fifty are of the type which passed thru here this mornin# They are an all steel truck, four wheel drive, with a capacity of six thousand J*unds arid with an engine of fifty horse power. The other one hundred trucks are to be fifty Pierce Arrows and fifty Packards. , - They will be used by the state highway coinmission in construction of the system of roads which were provided for by the last Indiana legislature. , r . None pf these trucks had been overseas. All had been used in this country. The trucks which havepassed through here were from the Municipal Pier at Chicago.