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Show llntor-llanlril Mailm liana. Great Ilrltaln haa advanced a step beyond other nations In the use of the bicycle as an adjunct to the military service by the Introduction of the motor mo-tor cycle It haa been enlisted for the purpose of hauling a Maxim gun One of theia motor-hauled Maxlmt wat thown at the eattern manoeuvre! of tho Twcnly-ilxth Mlddletcx cyclists. V. It C, which look place at Alder-thot Alder-thot The cycle on which tho gun, one of the regulation pattern, waa mounted, mount-ed, derived Its power from a two-horso power all motor, which waa built In tho frame of the machine It wat fitted with 2 1-: Inch tlret capable of wlu-'standing wlu-'standing the Inequalities of the worst joad Imaginable without Imparting too severe strain to the mechanism or the machine or tho gun Itself. This twentieth twen-tieth century gun carriage during tba manoeuvres was accompanied by a team of six men, mounted on single wheelt propelled by themselves Each man carried :S0 pounds ot ammunition |