Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1915 — Ford Employee’s Message From European Service. [ARTICLE]

Ford Employee’s Message From European Service.

Louis Teller left the employ of the Montreal Branch of the Ford Motor Company soon after the outbreak of the war to join the forces of the Allies. The manager of the Ford Branch has just received an interesting letter from Tellier, who is now convalescing in a French hospital. He was assigned to the General Staff as automobilist and interpreter. Tellier says: “At first I liked the excitement and danger. I was carry staff officers and despatches from one end of the 60 mile bat-tle-line to the other. And the speed was always terrific. Finally, after a stretch of 52 consecutive hours at the wheel without sleep pr rest, I was taken out of the car unconscious, and I haven’t ydt recovered quite from the terrific nervous strain. Tellier reports meeting the Ford agent of the city of Poitiers who drove a Ford up the 102 steps of the city stairs and down again, a feat no other car has ever been able to accomplish Of the terrific destruction of motor cars on the firing line Mr. Tellier writes interestingly. He reports that the big cars for which the British and French governments paid from $2,000 and $7,000 are proving unserviceable because of their weight and size. The Fords are rapidly being adopted for field use.