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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1950)
S TEN MEDFORD (OBECON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. February 12, 1950 1 Australian Order Shows Wide Demand For Tucker Sno-Cats Further evidence of the world wide acceptance of the Tucker Sno-Cat and of Its Increasing reputation for efficient over snow travel was shown recently when two of the sturdy Med-ford-made vehicles were loaded aboard a large Pierce Freight lines truck and transported to San Francisco for shipment to Australia. The single-drive freighter mod elsewhere sent to Horrocks, Rox burgh, Pty., Ltd., Melbourne, agent for the state electricity commission of Victoria. This agent has also ordered two more double drive Sno-Cats. Many Orders Tucker Sno-Cat corporation has also filled orders from India, Norway and Canada, as well as from eastern, Rocky mountain, great plains and western moun tain states of this country. Those using the machines all report orpnt success, according to Pres ident E. M. Tucker. Files at tne manuiaciuniiK plant on highway 99 south of Mcdford are now jam-packed with orders. In fact, Tucker re ported, popularity of the Sno Cat is such that the corporation would do a tremendous business if all orders could be filled. Tucker declared that this poten tial market points toward a vast manufacturing program calling for large facilities. Sees 2.500 Workers He expressed the strong belief that the corporation could use 9 ftnri mnlrwppn in fill the de mand by the firm in its almost four years of business and devel opment here. Today the company averages 25 exployees. Tucker oai it has rnnrhfH thp HtatllJl of a million dollar industry and is on tne tnresnnoia ui uwa hiw duction. Facilities are available to increase production. Tucker and his sons; Emmctt Jr., Jasper and Morris, came to Medford in 1946, and with the help of prominent businessmen have developed the growing en terprise. The inventor has put in his entire time building and im- .inn 4ha Poi Tho firm has two buildings and exp.-i.ts to be operating at tun capacity nexi fall. Lack of capital and mater ial shortages through strikes have delayed expansion of the business, according to Tucker. Best Locality He said his corporation has proved that the Sno-Cat can be produced in Jackson county at much greater efficiency than in other localities because of the lower class of freight rates on raw materials, the better labor situation and the desirability of the Rogue river valley as a home. Tucker's latest development Is the four-pontoon, double-drive machine on which testing com menced two years ago. It is built for travel in deep, fluffy snow drifts and for climbing steep hills. He stated that this Sno Cat model will negotiate up to a 100 per cent (45 degree) grade. I The vehicle has finger tip hydraulic control. Demonstrations Given Morris Tucker, chief engineer for demonstrations and sales, is now showing the abilities of the double-drive model to agencies in the northern states of the middlewest. His father said that utility companies are finding that it will do all it is represent ed to do and more. Reports have been rolling In rapidly from persons to whom the machine was demonstrated, the elder Tucker said. They state they would not have believed the advertised capabilities of the Sno-Cat' had they not witnessed It perform. Numerous prospec tive buyers, according to Tucker, Indicated that they were unim- nressed bv advance notices but absolutely amazed by a first-hand demonstration. The flexible Sno-Cat, with its patented sliding pontoons, posi tive traction and light construc tion, rides on top of the snow and travels where no other vehicle can follow, Tucker ad vertises. There is "no snow too deep no road too steep." EXPERT TYPEWRITER and ADDING MACHINE REPAIRS YOUR OFFICE BOY 115 W.it Main St. AACS Man Promoted To Grade Of Sergeant . . c4 Un....l anlieta Edward T. Howard, airman with the airways and air com munications service at the Med ford airport, received a promo tion to the grade of sergeant, ef fective February 1. Sgt. Howard is assigned as clerk typist to the airways radio station at the mu nicipal airport. Sgt. Howard enlisted In the air. force at Ft. Knox, Ky., in January, 1948, and has been as signed to the local AACS detach ment since August, 1949. Coffee, milk, beer, soft drinks and hard liquor in that order are the nation's favorite beverages. The New Crematorium at Siskiyou Memorial Park Is Now Ready to Serve this Community and Is Open for Public Inspection The Beautiful New Mausoleum at Siskiyou Memorial Park Will Be Completed Soon and Open to the Public Cremations $45.00 Phone 2-2344 Volley Am MM 11 V - . .nu" -idnAVYrtM " waV .Met iiCftV1' ..A oT v Kt nm AeeP Aa, Aa-Y SV otefN SpiVoPX flit. II - m Jt con- SI I . ei cop" : T.e n1 otv . -. m . .111 V 1U .ITB" AW J ViO"T-et l"7 tttt:...ve n' . iAe V(". ro". ..uv5 ote tv Vet. V- Stvo;-rf. oX ( e cut V Here's a Shipment of Tucker SNO-CATS Going to Australia! Here is a photo of a giant Pierce F-reight Lines trailer loaded with Sno-Cats destined for Horracki, Rcxburgh Pty, Ltd., Melbourne, Australia, agents for the state electricity commission of Victoria. Two additional Sno-Cats have been ordered by the same agent just an example of Sno-Cat's increasing over-seas business. Shown with the shipment are, left: Walter Clements, painter; Mrs. Radina Tucker and Mrs. Sheila Tucker, office secretaries; Jasper Tucker, field engineer; E. M. Tucker Jr., assistant manager; E. M. Tucker Sr., president and general mana ger; Adna Clark, Archie Uridel, George Bannister and Elmer Smith, employees. Tucker SNO-CATS for Recreational, Industrial and Military Winter-time Service
