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National Geographic : 1920 Feb
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Picked By the Government Chosen By Big Business GMC 34 to 1 Ton Truck, Through Reliability and Endurance in War and Every-Day Commercial Use, Wins First Place as High Grade All-Purpose Truck Since the very beginning of the motor truck industry the whole country has been looking for the all-around Truck. number of standard models this GMC 3/4 Ton Truck was picked as it' stood for class AA in place of a design developed by Government engineers. Just as the ordinary, general-p is the evolution into a standard d varying types, men have ex pected a standard all-pur pose truck, to some day be developed. This long-expected product of experience in truck build ing and truck utility actually has arrived in the finished and proved design of Model i6, GMC 34 to I Ton Truck. Its makers, as happens in many a success, builded bet ter than they knew. The 3/4 ton GMC took hold and reached out away beyond even what its designers had set as its standard of utility. urpose wagon esign of many When trouble broke out on the Mexican border it was put into strenuous ambulance service. When the United States joined the Allies in the World War the GMC 34 Ton Model was put into active service both here and overseas with high credit. When the War Department sought to classify the various motor trucks according to a fixed Again the GMC 34 Ton Model had measured up to the need-it had done *ore, for its great margin of safety justified Government engineers in adopting it for both the 3/4 ton and i ton classifications. GMC Model 16 had speed and flexibility for the great est range of action over roads of the most extreme char acter. It possessed the super strength of chassis and de veloped motive power that enabled it to qualify in the one ton class. experience the The success of Model 16 is e Governments the outcome of a very defi nite principle-the principle that a truck will yield in service only according to the quality in its construction. GMC Trucks are made by the General Motors Truck Company, the exclusive truck making unit of the General Motors Corporation. Be hind GMC Trucks, then, is the backing of the strongest and most important organization in the automotive industry. Model 16 is only one of the GMC Family, every member of which has equally as good a record eneGENERAL MOTORS TRUCK COMPANY GENERAL MOTORS TRUCK COMPANY Pontiac, Michigan "Mention The Geographic-It identifies you" What the Government Did Adopted GMC Model 16 just as it stood; as the AA standard for all military purposes in both the 4 ton and 1 ton classes. Its record can be told by any re turned soldier. What Big Business Is Doing Selecting GMC Model 16 in lar ger and larger numbers for both ' ton and 1 ton requirements, in fleets and for single truck ser- vice, proving by correctness of th judgment. (592) inuiiinniiuiinniininiiiuinnnniniiniinunininniimninnuninninnnnnninuimniniuunnnniui
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