INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.
MOTOR CARS IN WAR TIME
Received March 29, 9 a.m,
LONDON, M'aruh 18,
In order to test the practicability of employing motor cars ir. time of warfare, the Automobile Association conveyed a battalion of Guards, at full strength, with its baggage, from London to Hastings, on the south coast, in three and a-half hours. Two hundred and eighty-six cars and twenty-eight lorries were employed. The column on the move was seven miles long. Only a few minor mishaps occurred during the journey.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3142, 20 March 1909, Page 5
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84INTERESTING EXPERIMENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3142, 20 March 1909, Page 5
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