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I Evidence ? * TT 1 /"> IWmther Sup Perhaps the largest single truck ord facturer, one thousand trucks?thre by subsidiary of the Bell Telephone ^ ' r 1 ... \ \ * ' / ' V IWinther Motor Truck uo., Mr. W. H. Logan, 11H Taylor St., Columbia, S. G. \Tr TiOcan: as ! In reference to the contract we have for || trucks?while this is a large contract and pr< ? I for commercial trucks ever placed in this coun 51 part of our business, and I don't know that it is A. tn nnr nnmnflnV. It is inter Iier MJ 111 I cici cnuc iu i/ui _ came to get this contract. \ The American Telephone & Telegraph G years been endeavoring to find a machine for ] machines>vere tried and found wanting in one a year ago, the Bell Telephone System decided experimental lines in Chicago and thoroughly of a machine they wanted. Thi^ machine, ho drawn vehicle. It soon became apparent to tt Telephone and Telegraph Company that to get digger, it should be mounted on a motor truck 1 nnnrl fnn ovn (number of trucks were men purvuascu them one of our four-wheel-drives. We, of cc as to what was in the minds of the engineers of little attention to the order for the single tru< a special job in a great many respects, we neai after a period of several months, the officials inspected our plant and had a great many long company. We finally learned that their object whether or not our organization and stmding contract with usI After negotiations, covering quite a perioi chase the earth boring unit as a complete unit, machine, from the International Earth Boring It was then that we entered into contract with Machine Corporation of Chicago for one thous? ri.od of sixteen months after production starte< We have now built several of theke machi ' '1 1 ^-nrtHnollv nopfop I from the other, uniii we nave tll/UAXJ |/V& AVV boring machine to such a degree that it is sati: Bell System. j One of the engineers from the Bell Systei week, urging me to come there at the very anxious to get production started in quantities There are some little engineering details 1 ,'~'1 ???* Tho first, mnnliinp Itt'oy have neeu ? duvcu UUl. i I?v made on it is being delivered this week and we shorn in quantities. Yours very truh WINTH.KU MO i 9 DISTRIBUTORS FOR NOR 1 -1111 TAYLOR STREET. ? ?' ?* ! of J remacy , , j er ever given to a manu- | e million dollars, given Company. ? f I May 19 th, 1920. * * one thousand four-wheel-drive f * )bably the largest single contract tm itry; nevertheless, it is a small , m anthing of particular value to reesting, however, to note how. we H ompany have for a great many 1 boring post holes. A great many respect or another. A little over 9 I that a machine being built along v I covered by patents was the kind wever, was built on a horsete engineers of the American real efficiency out of this pole I or some mgu-speeu veiuuio. n. in erfmental purposes and among | >urse, knew nothing at that time 5 the Bell System, so paid \ very 1 ck. As a matter'of fact, it being 9 ply turned it down. However, of the Bell System visited us and II ; talks with the personnel of our v 11 in visiting us was to ascertain would merit their placing a large i of time, it was decided to pur-. , including truck and boring Machine Corporation of Chicago, the International Earth Boring md trucks to be taken over a pei. nes, each one a little different ted the combination of truck and sfactory to the engineers of the n called me from New . York earliest opportunity, as they are V which must be settled, although with all ol the improvements anticipate soon to be delivering TOR TRUCK COMPANY, \ (Signed) M. P. Winther, President. ! N ?>GAN SALES / TH AND SOUTH CAROONA, G1 / nMnmMM ' i ? 4I11VU t Uifl pi Winther 1 1-2 A w 'V* t?ll^9B, H ' ' tU -m m ? > - ; iASI M . " Stmm^ ,r.- ^m0r - . ?< --J ??wHM I Ci \ Logan Sales Company, 1-111 Taylor Street, Columbia, South Carolina. Gentlemen: ) At tire solicitation of Mr. F. H. Hyatt, we took to a sand pit near Columbia to demonstrate the tri out of the pit with a load of sand. We loaded the up an incline of about 20 degrees in deep sand, wit I-1/2 ton- We weighed the sand and found we lit overload. v It was a great surprise to me as well as othfers performance of the truck, as a great many trucks sand pit, and failed. I do not hesitate to say that this truck, in my its kind on the market, and predict a great success, they can drive in and out of their fields with ea: - - ' Yours very truly, . Draying, Grading am \ 1 /ir^> A \T\/ > ^UiVir/AlNI EORGIA, FLORIDA, TENNESSEE Af I % . ' '' . ' I. - A f||gj Ton Job ? ? * ' ... : '; olumbia, S. G., May 29, 1920. ' ,! l k; * .??? , Ajt r:>?z$9 ? ' ' v " . . - , : ... * .& ? J ' / v . .* * a Winthor truck and drove out * ick and see if it would pull in and ' truck with sand, drove over and hout difficulty. The truck was a id 4^500 lbs., which was a 50% .* / k ; k*: ; v?* W who accompanied us to see the have been tested in this same judgment, exceeds "anything of especially with the farmers, as f ao. ~ t i H sorge W. Rawls, d Excavating Contractor. i 4D ALABAMA. COLUMBIA, S. C. 1