. Automotive industries . per barrel, this represents a clear gain of$60,000. For this reason a well when once started isrushed through to completion as quickly as possible. Workis carried on night and day, no delay of any sort beingtolerated. It is not unusual to pay as much as $200 fortransporting a much needed load of oil well material over10 miles of a particularly bad road during the rainyseason. Trucks designed for use mainly in the cities have beenfound unsuited for this work, owing to insufficient reservepower, insufficient frame strength and flexibility, and in-sufficient road clearan
. Automotive industries . per barrel, this represents a clear gain of$60,000. For this reason a well when once started isrushed through to completion as quickly as possible. Workis carried on night and day, no delay of any sort beingtolerated. It is not unusual to pay as much as $200 fortransporting a much needed load of oil well material over10 miles of a particularly bad road during the rainyseason. Trucks designed for use mainly in the cities have beenfound unsuited for this work, owing to insufficient reservepower, insufficient frame strength and flexibility, and in-sufficient road clearance. Practically all oil field trans-portation is done with 21>-ton and 3--ton trucks with3-ton two-wheel trailers, the majority of the materialhauled, such as lumber, boilers, drill tools, and casing, be-ing too long and heavy to be carried on the long wheelbasetruck. For operation over soft roads, both truck andtrailer are equipped with giant pneumatics, as they givebetter traction and do not cut in as deep as Wichita Oil Field Special with typical load A special study of the transportation requirements ofoil well operators has been made by the Wichita MotorsCo., whose plant is located in the center of the oil fielddistrict. They began by making changes and alterationson their standard 2J 2-ton model and after thorough testsunder working conditions, built some other trucks in whichthe weaknesses of those previously tried were final result was a specially designed 2%-ton truck,known as the RX Oil Field Special. The particular fea-tures of this truck are giant pneumatic tires, ample roadclearance, a form of construction whereby the individualunits are protected against damage from twisting anddistortion of the frame, heavy sectional flexible frame andample reserve power. The greatest problem was to obtain the proper balancebetween motor size, transmission and rear axle reductions,and rear wheel diameter in order to obtain an ability thatwould not put t
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