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...Lift. The biggest general-purpose forklift truck ever made was demonstrated by Clark Equipment Co. The dramatic-looking Ranger-700 can lift 35 tons (35 times the capacity of smaller truck lifts), has 6-ft.-high tires, and two sets of controls, between which the operator in his air-conditioned cab can swing to keep his view unblocked. It can lift a trailer carrying half a dozen autos, hoist truck trailers on and off flat cars in rail road piggybacking. Ford has ordered five for its steel division. Price: $90,000 each...
...third-floor composing room of the Chicago Sun-Times last week, a forklift truck nosed up to a clattering Linotype and tweaked it away from under the operator's fingers. Backing out, the tractor trundled the two-ton Linotype to a special elevator hoist that whisked it into a waiting truck on Franklin Street. Twenty minutes later the Linotype, its lead still molten, clattered back into action at the new $20 million Sun-Times building on the north side of the Chicago River, six blocks away...
...money by leasing its delivery fleet and using the cash, which it formerly tied up in truck ownership, to buy inventory (plumbing supplies). The bigger inventory turned over seven times yearly and brought a 35% return. Anchor Sanitary paid out about one-seventh of these new profits to lease forklift trucks, salesmen's cars, even office equipment...
With Donegani jailed, Faina got the company back into production in the occupied south, rebuilt the ruined factories. He plowed nearly $250 million back into the business in ten years, bought 2,000 forklift trucks, mechanized production with thousands of new machines. He abandoned Donegani's one-man rule for a U.S.-style line-and-staff system, authorized plant managers to run the works on the spot, set up executive committees in Milan to supervise the major decisions and divisions. On the technical side he held a lighter rein, giving considerable scope to Engineer Perio Giustiniani. a fellow Tuscan...
...piggybacking has sparked new life in the railroad-equipment industry. General Motors' Electro-Motive Division has designed a special flatcar, 75 ft. long and capable of carrying two trailers, v. one for present cars. The G.M. car can be loaded from the side by means of a forklift, thus making for quicker and more flexible handling than the old-fashioned "circus loading," by which trailers were rolled up a ramp at the end of the car. American Car & Foundry, Bethlehem Steel, Pressed Steel Car and others are ready to manufacture piggyback equipment, and Pullman-Standard has had 500 inquiries...