Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1918 — Dental Truck Is Provided for the United States Army. [ARTICLE]

Dental Truck Is Provided for the United States Army.

The government has recently been presented with a dental* truck which is remarkable for its completeness and the ingenuity of its design. It is illustrated in an article in Popular Mechanics Magazine. Attached to either side of the body and mounted on frames that fold up, jackknife fashion, are tents that can be opened quickly when the car is at rest. These are used as living quarters for the men in charge and for professional work. One is equipped with a portable dental chair and an oil heater. The body of the car is equipped with a regulation dental chair, a gas-admin-istering outfit, spacious cabinets for Instruments, a washbasin, thirty-gallon water tank, rotary pump, etc. Acetylene gas is supplied from compression tanks for lights, a heater and a brazing torch. Storage batteries supply current for auxiliary lights, a dental lathe and an electric engine.