Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1899 — Motor-Hauled Maxim Guns. [ARTICLE]

Motor-Hauled Maxim Guns.

Great Britain has 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 cycle. It has been enlisted for the purpose of hauling a Maxim gun. One of these motor-hauled Maxims was shown at the eastern maneuvers of the Twenty-sixth Middlesex cyclists, V. R. C., which took place at Aidershot. The cycle on which the gun, one of the regulation pattern, was mounted, derived its power from a two-horse-power oil motor, which was built in the frame of the machine. It was fitted with 2%-inch tires capable of wlthstanding the inequalities of the worst road imaginable without Imparting too severe a strain to the mechanism of the machine or the gun Itself. This twentieth century gun carriage during the maneuvers was accompanied by a team of six men, mounted on single wheels propelled by themselves. Each man carried 250 pounds of ammunition.