The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-12
Automobile News
THE SUPERIOR TRUCK

The one and a half-ton truck is su- perior to all other models for army field service according to the annual report of Quartermaster General Ale shire of the United States army. Of l the 80 trucks purchased during the | past fiscal year, all but three were of | the tone and a half capacity.
 Much practical experience" says General A1eshire in the report, has been obtained during the year with | motor truck transportation in con nection with the transportation of supplies between base depots and out lying camps on the Texas border. A | reduction in transp portatior has been 1 effected wherever motor trucks have | been supplied. Tests now are being made with both two-wheel and four wheel traiIers. Reports to date show that the use of trai1ers with motor trucks is economical War and Tight Money Cause No Worry.
 Wars and tight money may be causing our captains of industry loss of sleep, but they aren't worrying the western farmer little bit. In most 1 sections of the west, crops have been good and the captains of agricul- ture" with granaries bursting with dollar wheat and other bumper crops, aren't worrying-a- a. bit over war and l financial -stPingency. There is going 
 selling for less than $1.200. among ] middle western farmers during the coming season.
 Can Buy All Materials Hero. l The Packard Motor Car company I reports that it is able to buy all it's necessary materials in America, and that the European war has not i'm | terfered in the slightest degree with l it's access to supplies.
 Every material necessary for the 1 manufacture of our cars and trucks can now be purchased in this coun- l try.'' asserts the Packard executive. l While we have been importing cer- tain fabrics and feathers for trim ming bodies and some types Of mag netoes and ball bearings, we are now l assured. that everything we need in every direction can be obtained from 1 American sources.
 j Had this war occurred ten years ago, or less, our factory would have had to close, because at that time we i were entirely dependent on foreign manufacturers for the following ar ticles: French cylinder castings pis- ton and piston ring castings, cone steeIy for ball bearing races ball bearings, Fulmen storage batteries, spark coils, nagnetos, spark plugs and spark porcelains, high tension igni- ton cables, timers and commutAtors, motor valve forgfngs, si1ico manganese gear steel. door locks, door handles, all cloths, 1aces and silks for trim mings. goat skins for enclosed body upholstering. horns and bulbs"
 Armored Motor TrucIxs. @l Armored motor trucks operating both on railways by means of special Hanged wheels and in regular man ner, equipped with mitraIIeuse, ma chine. and other forms Of light guns or loopholes for sharpshooters. are being used to haras advance forces or cavalry. (1ns the recent wars in Mexico, the ConstftutfonaIist Villa. is E said to have protected effectua1ly all the vital railway arteries essential to transport his troops and supplies and to have kept passage between his ad- vance forces and bases open by means -l Of several armored motor trucks niountlng machine guns and small ar : ti11ery pfeces0 In addition, many
 hundreds of motorcycles carrying small quick firing guns are being used to disperse advance scouts.
 Some idea of the effectiveness o1 armored motor vehicles in the pres l ent wars is disclosed in several re- ports which. censors have passed, to the effect that Belgian troops in ar enemy annfhilating all but ten, wIlc were made prisoners' The advancing German army is accom- panied by heavy artillery carried up- E on arTnored motor trucks sL1eu- tenant Henkurt attached to the gen. l eraI staff has designed an armored motor car which has been success fully used by the Be1gians. He has had several encounters with uhlans, oi whom he has killed considerable number. practically single-handed His only assistants in his reconnais- sance are a, chauffeur. an engineer of ficer, and shorpshooter. On Aug 20 near Waterloo, they faced a force of nearly 500 Germans and escaped
 after killing 25 with a pid-firel mounted on the truck. On Aug. 21 P 1.-the party met a force of 80 uhIar scouts and killed 20 of them. .,'-RoIiiI H ". Hutchinson. IT,, The Engineerins for November.
 Record Speeds.
 The record speed of an automobil, is 142s9 miles per hour. This was made
 at Ostend, Belgium, over a. flying kilo-
 meter by Arthur Duray in 300 k horsepower Fiat. This was in De \ cember, 1918.
 An electric train has travelled 12S.sl \ miles per hour. This record was mad \ in a government test over the Berlin \ zossen road in 1912 The road bet
 was specially constructed for the test
 The record for an aeroplane is 126.ol \ miles per hour, being the averag speed made by Maurice Provost over
 125-n1ile course at Rheims, Frances il \ September, 11913.l Two miles a nainut \ is the maximum attained by a steah
 Iocomo motiye. This was in 3, run iron \ Fleming to Jacksonville, Fla, a dis \ lance of five miles Other records are \ Motorcycle, 100 miles per hour; pig ~ con. s5.6 miles per hour; motor boa