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Show Kii ARMORED GAR . iCH PRMSE Successful Army Test Con-ductad Con-ductad on King Eight in Trial at Washington. Before one of the mosi critical audiences audi-ences which bus ever wuned such a test, an armored motor cue, mounted on an eight-cylinder Kinc chassis. flrow salvos of applause for Its performance in an army test hold at Washington. The armored body was mannt'.ieturpd by the Amored Motor Car company of Detroit. De-troit. The Kin? srmorcd motor rar i? now in th JuriMirtiun of the ("nited States marine corps at Canp Bldd. Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. Hero arc eimmpoj marines and rlt'zcn olrllpr-. The cr.r is ro he put through furthor tests by this a.m of the mil!l;irv service during the encampment at l'.iddie. . ,,, The testa fit Camp P.iddle AU i-onsist of rerornaipH-mve. scoutlmr work, sham httlea and il'.o loading of tho Kinp armored car aboard a battleship. (juiiiK ' to pe;i and lnndimr with tlie rar, stat;-1 stat;-1 Ing mimic warfare. This test will he under the supervision of a hoard of ma-, ' rine offioers eonslstinc of Cfiptalns Seth . William-. Karl Kills and Charles Sanderson. Sander-son. Marines of the regular servK-o and the '-uizen soldiers at Camp Hi. idle will I make up the defence and uLiaokin-? parties. par-ties. Kverv teM to rl fit ermine the popihiil-tles popihiil-tles of a liffht armored motor car under war conditions will be Maped. It has been .salii by officers of the er h'e who have been at Vera Cruz that had the j com viands h-en equipped with a llg-ht i armored motor en r the landing would have been effe-'tM without the loss of life. The army is particularly interested in th liht ai'mored motor car for work-in work-in Mexico. The Kinp war ear is specially fitted Willi steel armor plate and a n-volv!n turret h minianire edition of that found on battleships. The i ear has a steel platform, under which the ammunition ammuni-tion i.- carried. A rapid-fire pun is in-stniW-d in the turret. T!io car carries three piissetwrs a driver, simnci' an-.l usslstiint. T'ne (run is of ;.uth caliber timt it can he used for scout duty, dispatch dis-patch work or skirmishing, aiut the car is much more valuable for this V" ''') s1: v Ice rtrk than its bii'j-ier bro! her. the a mi ore 1 motor truck or tlie unprotected inuring car. The Ivijic chassis is par-t par-t iei.l iC v a da pi e fr the work intended lor tile c;ir he'T.ue it can be moved w i f 1 1 , is d ; i r; ; i ! e and f : e x i H e . w i : n plenty of power. The el a rmoreil ca r. with p in. p isneni.-: s. test equipmeiu ar.d a tTi'ii ni : ion, weighs i-lost to 4'"" 1 pTiiuls. The h.aidcst testvas the gme'dlmr run throuch "the hkr-k ravin" on the Fori Myf r military wst-rva t ion. Here it 1? that all a;my tiuck tests are held ni iDHiiy have failed. At the bm torn of the ! rav ino t here is a drop of four a nd one-i one-i : a!f feet into a v. a ter-f tiled dit-h. The i In i; plunged down into the hole and, with its front lieids l-urif J in the m . j-j and the r.ar wheels nn the bank aove. .ta.-o;is slotted into "low" and the I'ir.c. sllppiiip tor want o:' a foothold. rap:J:y climbed over the wet prrass and loose sund to the crest on the opposite bank. Just to show that tlie stunt coufd be d::e with a standard seven -passenger, ei.'U-o liuder King touring fir. Pis t lie t a!es M ana per K. Ha:ley rcxle over the same course with a carload of military mili-tary attaches and District of Columcia oificia Is. As a finishing rouch to its afternoon's Performance, the King, with five soldiers from L'ort Mer on its .!atform. flew across the lass-sti-ewn parade ground at a forty-f ive-miles -an-houiv clip. |