ARMY ON WHEELS
?. lEC’I LX NI SA TI ON PL A N IN AUSTRALIA An Australia.’! overseas force of four (iivisions am! corps troops Would require 16,196 motor vehicles costing .64 5o( (h>() This exclude'; wa-tage and by no memis gives the whole picture i f tlx* vast expansion which mechanisation impose.-: <>n th<* army. This was stated by the Australian Minister for the Army <Mr Spender l , wh<> -.-mi that the maintenance and re* placement proccs.'Ts inevitable when such number 1 : of motor vehicles were used in war condition* entailed instructi'inal eiii.>l- oidmmee work'lmp*, and field rep.-iirmg units on ;i c.iinnicr.-tindi* -i 't he u-•• of tanks demanded m-w defence armaments agaii *. tank", ami the anti-:.in‘k.gun* now in the prune-of m.amifaclurr' in Atr 'ralia were a development of the; new warfare. Ci'iistriictmii costs of . 'aid.. .Mr Sp nd.-r said wet-.- .-ippr -xim.;lMy 1 ICW) a ion. am! tanks ranged m< -.*'<•
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1941, Page 3
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151ARMY ON WHEELS Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1941, Page 3
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