Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 57 | New Truck Will Use Little Cargo Space

NEW NEV TRUCK WILL MILL USE ui LITTLE CARGO sr t By United Press Pres WAShINGTON May 1 2 of cargo space pace one ono of the most problems of the tile shipping board h solved so Sn far n nM as th the tho transport truck B n tho the new true truc trucy Is concerned T Under the thc t system established b bt qU corps this truck Ji prepared pared for shipment overseas pr r rc-o rc but one fourth fourth the spare space on b bar J that heretofore has been heen allotted to arm army truck S i Until the new truck truel wa was product produced p J J truck sent across to General d 1000 cubic feet fer of cargo cano n Truck B taken takemi apart and anti 2 i shipment occupies cubic feet I The Tho motors division of the tern leru corps corpa has taken over o the entire i or of handling the new truck after It 17 I hed at tho the HI different factories I Ing tai lug InS IL Arm Army officers and find receive the trucks at the lie factories p deliver dellver them rn overland o wherever a. a j ordered either r to camps and can canor or at Atlantic ports The TIle complete cess ces of the new truck Is shown by bl y j jease c case ease with which soldiers rs who have seen it before run it hundreds hundred of ot r. r over all sorts of roads from ra lori all hL points in iii the country Army It con consider lder it the last word In army tr rt Trucks are hein being plied up at hou es on the docks r ready ad- ad adfor for or Heavy R of spare parc parts and and M cc oris are also 1 0 being laid down at t U for It Is the object ports of th the arm make nale Truck B fl the principal mea mean tran transportation from French ports poni to lo rt front The Thc truck i Is so 0 completely t lb that service stations station j in will be Le able to repair in the lie briefest p sible time limo an any accident ent that may cl cur to It It I Truck B is ii so simple and so o ea 1 15 assemble emble that It will be he t sent abroad d nothing but Lut written instructions as tol tola to unpack and aud assemble It The ThC i rr service of or the arm army In France win ti i able to unload a truck put it to-eth- to fill the lie tank lank with gasoline a and uld put p into service within a few row hours after M I Is taken of off of the th at a aport Fret i port