Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-21 | Page 5 | For Speeding up Motor Equipment

FOR SPEEDING UP MOTOR EQUIPMENT WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. Speeding up of the delivery of the vast motor equipment equip-ment planned for the American expeditionary expedi-tionary forces is the primary purpose of the creation in this country of six repair districts for centralization of the upkeep work on motor transport equipment for the armv. So that new machines, can be sent to Europe, it Is proposed to keep the trucks at home In operation until It no longer is possible to repair them. In the six repair districts announced today by the war department were Kort Sam'llo'uston and El Paso, Texas, for the border region; Chicago for the middle west and San Francisco for the far west. The policy of the motor transport corps, it is announced, will be to discourage ma.ior repairs to motor equipment of the armv under its jurisdiction, except at the central repair stations, where large repair units will be maintained. A district dis-trict chief for each section soon will be named to direct the work.