Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-09-16 | Page 38 | All Trucks Must be Standardized

ALL TRUCKS MUST MUSTI I BE F Factories Decide on on Uni Uniform form Work to Help Country Country Coun Coun- try Win W. W War ar Tire rIle c committee on automotive transport transport transport trans trans- port o of the council of national defense a ahas has announced that as an outcome o of ot ofa ota t a conference of motor truck manufacturers engineers and representatives representative S I o of the tle master cori corps o of the arm army I anti ind of ot the committee held hold at t C COmm lum- lum bus lUS 0 O 0 July the results 1 of or f which have ha a since been approved by the war department department de tie the motor truck th ni makers kers o of ot the country have agreed voluntarily to cooperate with th the war department t i in carrying through a continuing standI stand stand- I motor motoi truck I building program a I for foi the requirements df dt t the American 0 j I army The Columbus m meeting was attended at attended at- at tended by bv fully representatives o of ot the and Sod Its Ite action Insures th the e organized assistance of the country's Country S j I motor truck makers In providing a an n ample supply y of military motor trucks truck S I for government service says The Th e Power Wagon 1 I The secretary of ot war has set aside asid C I from the contingent fund a sum sufficient dent to complete the work worle of f standardizing standardizing stand stand- ardi parts for a military motor moto r I truck ba based ed on the best American an and S 11 I foreign experience e which will serve seive I In n 1 the future as the standard American America U i army vehicle The experts expert of the quartermaster r i II corps together with their civilian advisers ad advisers ad- ad have reached the conclusion 0 I that it is only by a thorough standardization standardization I program by which all manu manu- of ot parts can be ie turned t to 0 I making the thc same interchangeable deI de designs de- de desIgns I signs that the army can be he assured o of f I ample supplies for possible greater de deI demands demands de- de mands on the capacity of the industry IT in the future It is pointed that tha A I not only will the demand for motor mote trucks s grow as more American troop troops 5 I po go o abroad but that if future allied of ol of- of Should drive the fighting more mor C I Into the open more rapid and extensive exten exten- I sive supply transport facilities will b be e needed The standardized motor truck t I whose design Is finally to be completed complete d dunder 1 under th the departments department's authorization t will be entirely suitable for commercial ii 1 purposes as well as ae being the bes best it military machine yet designed The decision of the government to 0 I adopt stAndardized standardised designs of motor ir truck parts announced at the Colum Colum- I. I I bus meeting by Captain W W. M Itt Britton Li engineer of moto transport quartermaster quarter quartes master corps provoked provoke protest from a number of manufacturers of ot motor in trucks Standard makes of ot motor trucks wi will 11 j probably be purchased throughout th this is gi 3 year Jear ear In the cJ opinion of Major C C. I B B. 3 Drake of the quartermaster generals general 5 s office but bitt those bought hereafter wl will Il be of the governments government's s standardized standardize a ty type e. e It is expected said Major Dral Drake Drak e e. e that the government will order b tw t n h 30 and 50 motor trucks within In the next t twelve or eighteen months month s Divisional motor trains are to consist consi of approximately cargo motor mob r I trucks and the trains of apI ap- ap aj I proxImately pro ly