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Show MORE PAGKARDS FOR , SERVICE Oil BORDER Two Hundred Packard Chainless Trucks Added to Army Equipment. The Packard MotuV Car company has received an order from the war department depart-ment for 198 additional Packard chain-less chain-less motor trucks for service with the army on the Mexican border. This order brings the total of this muko of truck purcoased by the government since Si arch 20 to 716 vehicles, representing an investment of. more than f 2.000,0'nj. With this call for additional motor equipment, thn war department has. for the first time, invoked the aid of the , new armv bill which bceanTe a law on June 3, 11)16. This statute provides that in an emergency such as the present ono manufacturers 'must give precedence over all their other work to army orders. or-ders. Tho Packard company has prepared pre-pared special stickers calling attention to the new law and these will be attached at-tached to every piece of correspondence, material requisition and memorandum having to do with the production of the 1JW speciallv equipped trucks. The truck division of the big Packard Pack-ard piant is being operated twenty-four hours daily and shipments of truck trains, consisting of thirty-three vehicles vehic-les each, are going forward as rapidly as possible. Officials of the company report that : outfiido cities nro beginning to produce volunteers for the eompnnies of drivers and mechanics to operate and care for the trucks in the army service. Tlie Chicago branch furnished twenty-five men for duty at the border. Within two days recently 10ii drivers and mechanics ' were started" southward in PuMmim cars ' provided bv the government, attached to special trains carrying trucks. t 1 |