Show AI hj rt 1 If WILL LL i THE r i LJ n i Li 11 To l 3 1 ni F o A r rr r-rr The truck that will transport Americas America's army supplies is at work Officially it is known as Class B try Truck but its pet name 1 L amon among the army men who like it is L Truck Trade S B J t I It is for use in the ers cra department only but since this i department has charge of the transportation trans trans- y for the army it m moms moans ns that Truck B delivers the goods to our fi fighting forces It Is the heaviest est of the quartermaster s. trucks It ItS S has a n four cylinder on engino ino a ant ana an J is 5 capable of carrying from three to toa tons S. d fi five ve tons ns r r Instead of waiting f for railroad transportation the Quartermaster I General is detailing officers and men meno mento iJ to o 0 drive the trucks overland There Thero are two reasons for this One is i hat that it saves badly needed carl cargo y pace ace on the railroads the other is 4 that the tho army officers are nrc not only making a test of the trucks but a test of the tho men who drive them IS I Tracks Trucks Travel in Fleets PI I Iw I w I The trucks travel in fleets now DOW sit I wending vending their wa way over different R arteries of tr traffic The a first test run l was was from Lima Ohio to Baltimore l ij Maryland Mu under trader the supervision of ot men from Camps Gumps Meade Melde and Devens who brought twenty trucks across i a L 4 th the country without a n hitch Not Notman one man in the tho detachment had bad even t Been seen vie cne of the trucks hocks until called on onto onto to drive it The officer observer observers who accompanied tho men gave nol no l instructions Their idea was to see sea seek k how a n detachment of soldiers would b handle the trucks when delivered in ail France Another fleet is now on its way from Chicago to Camp Capp Iowa lown This I fleet But is h made up of sixteen sixteen sixteen six six- teen true trucks F Truck Trude k gs Be Tremendous Power The Tho tremendous of the tho power new I t trucks army officers say Eay was shown i by the fact fad that no hill was reached reAches which they could not climb on b high Only on once they say was waslow waslow low log resorted to and that oui gear wast wasa was wasat a at t a s notorious near East Enst Palestine Ohio There the tho first f few trucks went through on low gear When it was found that they Rot got through easily on low th the ii others fo followed owed on second In crossing mountains high gear ar was k used except in rounding turns where 1 r. r the trucks slowed down for s safety ety T The Tho entire trip of approximately miles mUes was vms made in total j a runO running run- run Q O ning time of 77 hours and a n fraction ni t The aYen average e mil mileage was 3 miles Lu n gallon The trucks tracks traveled at a n rate f rate of 60 miles aides a day the running time being about seven miles an hour bour t 7 f Made By Motor Companies mi Truck B is ie to be the standard aI nf envy tru truck ck 0 of f th the e army I It t ia is u soi eo so i thoroughly standardized that alit although al- al thoa though h it is bein being made by dif dif- motor manufacturing firms 1 t every part of every tru truck thick k even to toJ toi J i ithe the nuts and bolts is identical It ItI I 1 gW as designed by a n committee of BU engineers from rom many 1 r Y r. r w. w w t-N t Mr f a v at W r N tita Z A STRUCK I Il l b 9 D t NR Y sr t r ar r. r Mr K L a r Y s Sy N l C t a s 4 y fj Sv Y cr rf j 1 Sr r t r 1 r r 1 i F A r S A 1 t tF sr t a s l i t 1 IL pA s VA y f a U r t C n S 1 YO tYr r d r w t rr S i r rU U Si n feMMA r 4 Jr Y ry it r r at ti 3 w r h t tj 1 t 1 j y k S R s A i Jf V iV I y N a 4 el a r. r X iL r t rr r W r r yra w r sv y y r tl r t. t L J r r f r f r f t f d S r y r N r iv i f yS 36 ni 4 r a rA S. S Kv x 4 r V M r tar y 1 y f u f a i 2 1 tu b Y d b t ii N 4 s h v r G t f tL j ea 4 t 4 t f'S f a n r K kf 5 r i t h f r 3 X a 4 I s S tr c fi te Jie w c M pj ae Aa w w br 1 vo n ti 1 h R wr N and CIVILIAN h i V yr EXPERTS WORKING rt 4 i k r y k r r t w 4 rSC rd ira l 0 1 Tr r yu a r t r. r S i y k i NI c f 1 s 1 fr S ir M r IY Spy a i companies who gave guve t their leir services to the Government free The engine o is a remarkable piece of work It is said slid thoroughly simple and yet et producing producing pro pro- tremendous power Automo Automo- Automobile Automobile Automobile bile engineers pronounce it one ono of or orthe the greatest t products of the war The motors division o of the Quartermaster Generals General's Corps of the e army has than chan changed d the system of shipment of trucks so so o as to cut off oft three-fourths three of the space required on bound board shil ship A truck standing usually occupies 1000 cubic feet oft of of space Truck B is being taken down at tho the ports of embarkation and packed so it occupies only 60 cubic f feet eLt L I. 1 r I o p m A J. J I 7 f v r tY l r Y I lL LN ri jS f l t 4 i. i l J- J it V f Jt t The new truck now bein being turned out by the thousand in many different different different differ differ- ent motor truck plants is to bc become omo one ono of the principal means of transporting transporting trans trans- porting supplies from the seaports ports of France to American troops at the tho front Not only is the truck doing all that is expected of it but it i is b bin being be be- being in ing produce produced rapidly in quantities and set down at ports of embarkation embarkation tion roll all ready for shipment 8 USE On March 30 the trucks were bein being being be be- in ing turned out at nt the rate of thirty a day On April 8 S they were being turned t out at nt tho the rate of ot forty a n day So steadily is the productive capacity growing Vin that by June it is b raid Fund they will win come forth from the factories at the rate of ot a day y and after niter that in whatever numbers the War Wu Department d desires cs f 1 t |