Show WAR EFFORTS ARE BOON TO m AUTOMOBILES AUTOMOBILE Many l Trials Overcome Year Brings Benefits That Will Till Last In a 30 review of or the automobile Industry Indus Indus- industry tr try for tor 1913 1915 leading Individual feature tea fen ture undoubted undoubtedly Is the part played by time the motor vehicle In tho the final de deCe defeat defeat de- de Ce feat t of ot German Germany Tho The conversion of ot a L greater creater part of ot the American Industry to T war r work t much of ot It only remotely Identified with tho the automobile business tho the de development le- le of ot tho the LIbert Liberty motor tho the broadening of ot tho the arm army motor transport transport trans trans- port cr and tho the curtailment and standardization of ot tire tiro sizes as a re result result re- re sult of restrictions on the use uso of or rubber rubber rub rub- ber her were ere high lights among the de developments developments de- de of oC tho the war year car h. h i l' actor in i The automobile has haa been described as na the one ono Independent factor all others that served to nullify Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Gor- many's tort forty years year of ot preparation for tor forthe tho the conflict Second In Importance was the service of oC tho the Industry In tho the production production pro pro- of or war wor material For It Is freely frech 1 that Industry not only performed such signal service In its own on line lino of ot duty but went outside outside out out- I side Ide Itself to develop on so BO hU huge e a scale products with which it was utterly un un- un familiar In point of army truck development the opening of oC the tho year car witnessed tho the thoI production of oC sample cample Class A trucks I the Class B 1 being already alread on Its wa way ray and the time well remembered ers controversy over o Its Inception having ln quieted down I somewhat It was In April that tho the I buln buying of cars and trucks was first consolidated ate under general orders thereby ush ushering In a series of or developments developments developments devel devel- In tho army organization that brought successively the motor transport transport trans trans- port service under Colonel Glover later the tho motor moHor transport corps corps as tho the operating oper arm and finally the motor dl- dl lr l- l r th nna n. n H V i tho tIme purchasing and procurement arm arrn I of ot tho tIme army transport I I Though already In uso Use to some nomo extent ex cx- tent it was vas not until Juno that tho the I B truck was officially adopted In July tho the question of ot standard designs for I trucks and tractors was t declared to have been settled Liberty Engine Dispute These Thell activities passed almost un unnoticed unnoticed unnoticed un- un noticed by the tho public at largo large in view Ip of or the spectacular development of or the Liberty engine and tho the brisk discussions discus that raged around It H. it Tho The re reorganization reorganization ro- ro organization of or the aircraft boar board InJune in inJune inJune June helped restore somewhat shaken confidence In the Industry aa as a ft n producer producer pro pro- I ducer of oC piano plane engines and aircraft In I general Tho rho practical result aimed at was achieved Of Ot broader and In a way n more general gen gen- eral Intel Interest est wan tho the He of ot events c surrounding the over ever more Intimate Inti mate relations between tho the industry and tho the government that were to havo have put the tho former entirely Into war var work by now had not th the war ended when it did I I |