Show ARMORED CAR IN WARFARE i European Armies Have Found It of the Greatest Value In Their Their- Operations ri I Although an engine new to warfare I 4 t the armored motor car has proved d es ea ei useful especially for outpost J T r and scouting duty Fast silent and mobile It covers a vast amount of ground on the splendid roads th that t crisscross the field of war in western Europe Most of the cars are incased in a light frame of tough steel plate plater r ft that ranges ranges' In thickness from three- three sixteenths of an inch to a quarter of an inch and that Is impervious to rifle r and machine-gun machine fire All the vulnerable vulnerable able parts of the motor motor motor- such as the radiator and steering gear and in some of the newest cars the wh wheels els are protected by the steel covering e The wheels both wood and wire are said to withstand the roughest sort of usage Accidents to the tires are much less common than would expect The cars carry a light armament armas arma- arma I s- s one went ment one or or two machine guns so r mounted that they can be swung through a complete circle circle and and a large supply of ammunition The 1 crew which may number from four to I It t eight or more men are armed with t rifles and revolvers Some of th the cars t. t have bave a steel superstructure that rises from the chasis frame high enough lo to enable the crew to stand upright k and nd that is capped with a domed roof from which bullets and shrapnel Hy illy fly off at a sharp ankle angle without f. f even denting the steel Youths Youth's Youths Youth's Com Com- r r panion C C. C |