MILITARY MOTORS
FIRST DELIVERY FOR SPECIAL FORCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 3. The first consignment of motor vehicles to be used in the training of the Special Force was delivered to the camp at Hopuhopu today when 18 trucks were driven from Auckland. Further deliveries are to be made till the full issue of 62 vehicles has been completed. Trucks which range from lOewt to three tons were purchased at the outbreak of war and have beenconverted for Army use by ten Auckland coach building firms. AU the vehicles have been camouflaged. Some are equipped with wireless and others have been provided with anti-aircraft and machine gun mountings.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1939, Page 4
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109MILITARY MOTORS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1939, Page 4
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