TRUCKS FOR THE AMERICAN ARMY
Major C. B. Drake, of .the Quarter-master-General's office ol the United States Army, estimates that that Department will purchase within the next year or eighteen months from JO.OOO to 50,000, trucks. Plans of the Department are to use only one type of ■truck m divisional trains; which consist of approximately UO'cargo-carryin* vehicles. Munition trains consist of approximately 400 trucks. Manufacturers have been advised not to continue experimental work in their factories ra connection witli military trucks. That.work is b> bo entirely carried out in the War Department. Only where .factories have sometliing radically new should such tactpry experimental work be continued,; Ameri-can-made motor trucks, fitted with flanged wheels, will travel over railroad tracks in Prance in conveying supplies to the United States Army from 1-rench ports, according to reports from lans. In commenting on this the Motor Age says—"Thousands of standardised motpi trucks, fitted with Hanged wheels, will be operated on the 200-imle railroad system connecting the American Army m France with the ports at which troops and supplies (ire being landed.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 9, 5 October 1917, Page 3
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177TRUCKS FOR THE AMERICAN ARMY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 9, 5 October 1917, Page 3
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