OF VIRGINIA 



million dollars for it. Similar industries in Kentucky, Illinois, Mis- 

 souri, and Wisconsin show the use of greater quantities of vehicle 

 wood than the Virginia manufacturers report, but of eight of the 

 eastern States so far studied, Virginia vehicle makers lead, followed 

 by North Carolina. In all the States for which reports similar to 

 this have been prepared, even in the Pacific Coast States, where no 

 hickory grows, hickory and white oak in quantity are the principal 

 woods used by the vehicle industries. They constitute over 76 per cent 

 of the total. 



The hickory went into shafts, tongues, spokes, rims, axles, bol- 

 sters, other gear parts and whiffle-trees, and the white oak into frames 

 for bodies, spokes, hounds, rims, tongues, bolsters, spring bars and 

 hubs. Red oak's uses were similar to white oak's even to the extent 

 of being turned into hubs and bent into rims. Ash found its most 

 important service for tobacco trucks but served besides as body frames, 

 spring bars, tongues and ladders. Osage orange, called "bodoc" was 

 used for hounds. It appears in no other industry of this report. 



The body woods were loblolly pine, longleaf pine, yellow poplar, 

 ash, red gum, cotton wood, white pine, and cottongum, basswood, and 

 sugar maple. Longleaf pine, sugar maple and the oaks went for the 

 floorings or bottoms of bodies ; the panels were made of yellow poplar, 

 red (sap) gum, ash, white pine and basswood, and the linings were 

 of loblolly pine, longleaf pine, red gum, tupelo, cypress and cotton - 

 wood ; ash, hickory, tupelo and poplar were reported for tops. 



TABLE II. VEHICLES AND VEHICLE PARTS. 



