Lajest available registration figures show that Ford trucks made a greater gain in "percentage of sales in-e during 1940 than any of the larger truck producers, During the six months of last year the Ford, tracks made a 23 per cert. gain as compared with a 10.8 per cent, gain in truck sales for the next competitive type, For 1941, Ford has a complete line of trucks ahd commercial cars, in-eluding 42 body and chassis types on six wheel bases, and ranging from the 112-inch commercial car to the 194- inch school bus. In addition a new for-cylinder engine is available in all. commercial cars, three-quarter and one-ton trucks, This new four cylinder engine is absolutely a new idea in truck transportation so far as Ford is concerned and seems bound to meet with great sueres, It bridges a gap which has existed. not merely in the Ford line b"t in the whole trucking business in that there is a big field for a well-made truck. with plenty of power, in a bracket of users who do not want a toy truck but do not need surplus power, Ford offers a new—but not untried—truék engine for 1041. This engine has pistons and other parts of the same size as used in Mercury engines, and a Somewhat similar engine has been further tested by more than a year pf severe vsage in the Ford-Ferguson tractor, where conditions âre usually much more severe than those prevailing in truck use,
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