Show NASH NASIN QUAD TO BEl BE OFFICIAL TRUCK FOR MARINES Pacific Nash Motor Co Receives Receives Re- Re Interesting Information Information 1 tion From Erom Washington I 1 An Interesting Interesting- message bap- bap h as Just just been ben received by Roy Hoy I U t wholesale It Ite salea e. e manager manage of of the Pacific Nash Motor Cope r regarding the Uon bv by the United States marine J i I corps of the Nuh Quad as the stand stand- nd enl aril dUI duty tt m i c for the aipa The The n news newe wll Is Iii contained in the following 1 communication This Thi is to notify nomy you that the I j. j Nash two two ton ton Quad has been been adopted by the the marine corps a standardization board as ass the standard cuty duty truck for ex edi MaJor Major Utley J United States marine cores corns This me message s t re received elved at the factory factory factory fac fac- tory of ot the Nash Motors company Is li striking striking- and official recognition of ot the unusual ability of this world famous truck to perform satisfactorily even under abnormal conditions condition The decision is as to the standard W was S arrived at first by combing the I files Cites of cf the office of the quartermaster quartermaster quarter- quarter master headquarters marine corps cOrp Washington T D D. C for every report available writes Major Utley Second Sec Sec Second I ond by writing to all experienced quartermasters who could be reached land asking asking for tor their recommendations I and third by obtaining from the army motor transport corps Information Information tion and data on the standardization I of motor transportation reports criticisms crill- crill and recommendations This Thill mass of ot data was referred to the standardization board consist consist- In of Majors Conger Horton and Judson The board then made thorough thorough thorough thor thor- ough tests testa not only of the Nash Quad but of ot various types of trucks and submitted Its recommendations tl to the major general commandant Briefly this means that from now on on whenever Uncle Sam finds It necessary to send the fl fighting marines marines marines ma ma- rines Nash Quads will go 10 to transport transport trans trans- port supplies bring up guns and ammunition and in short do all nit the various hauling tasks necessary To those mo moat mo familiar with the activities of th thir marines this means that the Nash Quad has been heen paid about the highest honor which could be conferred upon a n. motor vehicle It Is one thing for a truck to perform perform perform per per- form satisfactorily where roads roada are arc good and quite another for it to keep up the marines and do its work Inan in inan inan an out of the tho way corner of the Ute globe where the president may deem It necessary to dispatch these soldiers soldiers sol diers of the sea eca Isone is isone Go anywhere see anywhere see everything one of the well known slogans an of the marine corps and to meet th the re requirements requirements requirements re- re I of ot this most active branch of the service the Nash Quad must go everywhere and do O everything The heroic part played by tho the m ma marines marines ma- ma rines In tn the great war is 18 of ot too ton recent oc occurrence to need recalling Something of the tho peacetime peacetime peacetime peace time duty which the Quad will wilt bo be called upon to perform as the official of expeditionary truck of this branch of ot the tho fl fighting forces may be had from a n brief recital of what the marines were doing during the tho sixteen six aix- teen years that followed the Spanish Spanish- American war For the marine marino corps those sixteen years year were an unbroken stretch of activities on foreign soil Roll There I were the Samoan operations of ot 1839 1893 the Boxer expedition of ot 1900 those days davs on tho the Isthmus of Panama in 1901 1902 and 1904 There were the activities In the the- West Indies and Central Central Central Cen Cen- America the Cuban pacification In 1906 1908 the Nicaraguan expedition In 1303 1910 and later in 1912 1012 the thes s seizure and occupation of Vera Cruz In 1914 and the landings In Haiti and Santo Domingo at the close of that period Before reaching It its decision to tI uSe e enot not nothing ln but Nash Nuh Quads for Its fu future future fu fu- ture expeditions the tho marine corps was already familiar through actual comradeship with the quality of Quad performance where roads were wore b bad d dand and where there were no roads at all At the time of ot tho the standardization of ot Nash lash Quads the marine corps owned and was operating cOO of these powerful and sturdy trucks Many rany more mole Quads are arc now being rapidly added to this equipment In tho the famous march from Monte to Santiago do los ins Caballeros the Nash Quads Quad hauled ammunition wagons field guns gun supplies and carried carried car car- ried their own loads at tho the same time This was In 1916 and these same Quads arc are still on duty In Santiago de do los Caballeros Dominican republic |