Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 273, Hammond, Lake County, 16 May 1918 — Page 11

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T! ? truck that will transport ' c i a's lit my r upplie? is at vork. f ' 'y it b known as Class "B" rh.'u::-y Truck, but its pet name t- mor-g the armv men who like it. is U for use in the Quartermaster. 'epartment only, but since this n--f v.?nt has charge of the trar.sr .t,!'on for the army, it means it 'Truck F." delivers the good? to "o-htir.g forces. It is the heavi- ' "t of the quartermaster trucks. It ' ? a four-cylinder engine and i ;::!'"- cf carrying' from three to f ' on?. In-r-ad of waiting for railroad t -,- Dortation. the Quartermaster 'wt.1 is detailing officers and men t h Ive the trucks overland. There i..-, two reasons for this. One is. thr.t it saves badly needed cargo s-.rsce on the railroads: the other i thr.- the army officers are not on'y Making a test of the trucks hut a test of the men who drive them. Trucks Travel in Fleets. The trucks travel in fleets, now f-endir.jr their way over differert arteries of traffic. The first test run 'vas from Lima. Ohio to Baltimore. Maryland, tender the supervision of men from Camps Meade and Devens. who brought twenty trucks across the country without a hitch. Not one man in the detachment had even .en one of the truck until called on to drive it- The officer observers who accompanied the men gave no instructions. Their idea was to see bow a detachment cf soldiers would rn-.dle the trucks when delivered in France. Another fleet is now on its way from Chicago to Camp Dodge, Iowa. This fleet is made up of sixteen trucks. Truck Bs Tremendous Power. The tremendous power of the new trucks, army officers say, was shown by the fact that no hill was reached which they could not climb on "high." Only once, they say, was low gear resorted to and that wai at a notorious mudhole near Fast Palestine. Ohio. There, the first few trn?ks went through cn low gear. Whe"n it was found that they got through easily on "low", the others followed on "second." In crossing moan tarns, high gear was used except in rounding turns where t're trucks slowed down for safety. The entrre trip of approximately 560 miles was mndj in a total runriig time of 77 hours and a fraction. The average mileage was ZXi miles a jraHon. The trucks traveled at a rate of 0 nrus a day, the running time being about seven miles an hour. Made By 146 Motor Companies. "Truck B" is to be the standard heavy truck of the army. It is so thoroughly standardized "that, although it is being made by 146 dif- " rent motor manufacturing firms, every part of every truck, even to nuts and bolts, is identical. It .designed by a committee of .".jmohile engineers from many

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The new truck, now being turned out by the thousand in many different motor trucK plant., is to become one of the principal means of transporting supplies from the seaports of Frunoe to American troops at the front. Not only is the truck doing ail that is exDPcted of it but it is being produced rapidly in quantities

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