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Show jjr HOW II MOTOB IS If II II m j Survey Made by General Manager of N. A. C. C. Reveals Re-veals Startling Facts. RELY ON BIG TRUCKS in Thousands of Liberty En-" En-" gines and Power Wagons !." , Needed for 1918. i. "i c '" lull on-in i.' the offer of automobile manufacturers to serve the government 11 in anv wnv, a survey of the industry pi lias been made by Alfred Reeves, gcu-!f gcu-!f ernl manager of the National Automo-, Automo-, bilo chamber of commerce, to show the 1,1 kinds of service Hie motor ear is su-,j su-,j plying and can supply in the present ' national crisis. Washington officials ! arc realizing more and more that the 'J present war is dependent upon tho moil mo-il tor car industry in as many and pos- sildy in more ways than upon any other industry in this country. Annies at the front and in I lie training train-ing camps are supplied with food, clothing, animunit ion and all other necessaries by motor trucks. The armies ar-mies in F.urope are already using 10u,-(100 10u,-(100 motor trucks in transportation service. ser-vice. Tho United States army expects to call for 100,000 trucks for the coin-in coin-in p year. Many thousand motor ambulances arc used for removing the wounded from tho battlefields. Paris was saved from invasion by rushing an army of 100,000 French troops in motor cars, omnibuses and taxicabs from behind Paris for the battle bat-tle of the Marne. Verdun was saved by hurrying up ammunition and supplies sup-plies in motor Irncks when 110 other 1 ransportation would suffice. British "tanks" made, the break in the German line that resulted in tho ; victory at Cambrai. These tanks are caterpillar motor tractors, a type of ( farm tractor developed in America. j Motor tractors are used for hauling ' heavy guns. Armored motor cars have been used with success against rifle and machine gun fire. 1 Many types of special motor ears are ' used iii army work. They include cars and trucks equipped with wireless apparatus, ap-paratus, motor searchlights motor ' kitchens, motors mounting anti-aircraft guns, motor-driven emergency hospitals, ! motor trucks for erecting telephone and I telegraph lines, etc. . Motorcycles Are Used. ' Motorcycles aro employed almost al-i al-i together in the war for dispatch car- American automobile engineers and factories developed the Liberty air-; air-; plane motor, which will be built by tens of thousands in American automobile auto-mobile factories next year by the stan-. stan-. dardized quantity productive methods l developed in this industry. It is bo-1 bo-1 lieved these airplanes will materially , help to win the war. American automobile engineers and , factories also developed tho standard-' standard-' izod United States army motor trucks J and will build many thousands during r tho coining year. It is only through i the standardized production methods developed in the industry that it is possible pos-sible to manufacture these army trucks in such large numbers and to have tho parts in all of them interchangeable. inter-changeable. This interchangeable feature fea-ture 'will enormously reduce tho number num-ber of replacement parts that the army will have to carry in stock at the repair re-pair depots. It was the automobile business that made the airplane possible. Tho automobile auto-mobile manufacturers encouraged the steel manufacturers to evolve special allov steels that were extraordinarily strong and light and high-speed tool steel for working these hard, touch metals. The automobile industry also developed devel-oped the high-speed gasoline engine that lias been adapted to airplane and motor mo-tor boat work. The use of motor trucks made "it possible pos-sible to construct the sixteen national armv cantonments in record time. They hstiled most of the material used in erecting the buildings at these cantonments. canton-ments. Manufacturing facilities of the motor car industry are sufficiently extensive to produce' most of the materials required re-quired bv tin1 avmv with the exception of food stuffs. Leading motor car companies are already extensively engaged en-gaged in manufacturing not only motortrucks, mo-tortrucks, motor C3rs, ambulances and tractors, but are also producing on a large scale gun caissons ami parts, recoil re-coil checks, mine anchors, shells, etc. How Factories May Help. It is entirely feasible for them to make steel helmets, all sorts of forg-ings, forg-ings, stampings and castings, tents, wagon covers and innumerable other articles ar-ticles of metal, cloth and wood. The rubber tire companies have begun making mak-ing gas masks and have been making fabric for airplanes and balloons fulsome ful-some years. In response to the call for the railroads' rail-roads' war board, motor trucks are rapidly rap-idly coining to the relief of the railroads rail-roads in their present critical state of congestion, to care for all short-haul : freight traffic in and around cities up i to distances of twenty-five to fifty j 'miles. This will enable the railroads j to clear the tracks and part icularlv the terminals lor through freight of utmost i importance, such as coal, sugar, ore. j iron and steel, gram, necessary foodstuffs food-stuffs of all kinds, munition and other army supplies and troops. Taking over rif short haul work by motor trucks will release many locomotives, cars and train crews for long-haul work. Army trucks are going to be delivered deliv-ered from the factories where they are built to the seaboard for shipment abroad over the public roads under their own power. They will make the trip loaded with spare parts ami supplies and will be manned by the armv motor truck crews that will handle them on the other side. Thus they will avoid the use of many thousands of freight cars ami hundreds of locomotives. Officers, automobile, ambulances and motorcycles lor courier service and machine ma-chine gun batteries can also be delivered deliv-ered bv road if desired. Should anv eveul ua I ily arise, such as the blockade of a railroad, to make it ueccs .ary, the thousands ,,f soldiers at uiv of our cumpa or cunLojnnc'iti could! to moved rapidly by a concentration of thousands of privately-owned Tour-i Tour-i ii l: cars of our citizens, and their entire en-tire equipment could follow in private motor trucks. The -f.'Hju.oon automobiles and 400,-onn 400,-onn motor trucks and delivery wagons in use in America are a tremendous resource. re-source. They are t imc -aviii!' and labor-saving machinery that enables more work to le done hi a- ;;i ven time bv fewer men and horses. .Man power is scarce and hih -prtt-ed and horses and mules have been shipped abroad for army use at the rait1 of half a mi 'lion yearly sin-e tho war bcan. Motor cars are a nocesMtv to the farmer aiid motor 1 rucks arc equally iiecosarv to manufacturers and mop-hauts who have fou ml it i m pel a ti ve to bri u materials Ionl' u:fam'e bv truck and make lon ''isranre drl; erics t( avoid railroad freight etnlai u-.'s mid other rail delays |