| Show ARMORED CAR IN WARFARE european armies have found it of the greatest Grea teat value in their operations although an engine new to warfare the armored motor car has proved 0 tro tr emoly mely useful especially ifor for outpost and scouting duty fast silent and mobile it covers a vast amount of ground on tho the splendid roads roada that crisscross the field of war in western europe Ru rope most moat of the cars are incased encased ifal in a light frame of tough steel plato plate that ranges in thickness from three sixteenths of an inch to a quarter of an inch and that Is impervious to rifle und machine gun fire all the vulnerable parts of the motor such BO as the radiator and steering doring st goar gear and in some of the newest cars care the wheels are protected by the steel covering tho the wheels both wood and wire are said to withstand the roughest sort of usage accidents to the tires are much less lean common than anyone would expect the cars carry a light arma man one or two machine guns so mounted that they can bo be swung through a complete circle and a largo supply of ammunition tho the crew which may number from four to eight or more men are armed with wit rifles and revolvers senna of the cars cara havo a steel superstructure that rises from the chants frame high enough tto enable the crew to stand upright and that la Is capped with a domed roof atrom which bullets and shrapnel ally fly oft off at a n sharp anglo angle without raven denting the steel youths companion |
