| Show ARMORED CAR IN WARFARE european armies have found it of the greatest ct value in their operations although an engine new to warfare the armored motor car has proved ex useful especially for outpost and scouting duty fast silent and mobile it covers a vast amount of ground on the splendid roads that cross the field of war in western europe most of the cars are encased incased in a light frame of tough steel plate that ranges in thickness from three sixteenths of an inch to a quarter of an inch and that is impervious to rifle and machine gun fire all the vulnerable parts of the motor such as the radiator and steering gear and in some of the newest cars the wheels are protected by the steel covering the wheels both wood and wire are said to withstand the roughest sort of usage accidents to the tires are much less common than antono would expect the cars carry a light arma ment one or two machine guns so mounted that they can be swung through a complete circle and a large supply of ammunition the crew which may number from four to eight or more men are armed with rifles and revolvers some of the cars lave a steel superstructure that rises from the frame high enough to enable the crew to stand upright and that Is capped with a domed roof from which bullets and shrapnel ally fly off at a sharp angle without even denting the steel youths corn canlon |
