Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1912 — Automobile Artillery. [ARTICLE]

Automobile Artillery.

Efforts are being made by the powers toward the adaptation of the auto mobile to the transportation of field artillery. It has been pointed out that the idea of a self-moving gun carriage for field guns was suggested as early as tbe year 1769 by the engineer, Cugnot At present efforts are principally directed to the perfection of a form of automobile suitable to take tbe place of horses in drawing the artillery wagons. Many different forms of ironclad automobiles, carrying light guns, have already been invented and tested, with more or less success, but, it is said, the main problem is to adapt the automobile to tbe transportation of guns mounted, as at present, on their own carriages.