Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-22
DOINGS IN THE auto WORLD
Suggestions Offered in Dimming Head Lights-State Of
Michigan Has Many Lines of Automobile Manufacture
REPRESENTATION of Storage Battery Important
Factor in the Modern Motor Car,

new machine are being carefully kept
secret, it not being planned to give q
public demonstration until the Indian
aplis 500-nile race.
AS driver of the new care it is
thought Eddie Pullen, holder of the
worlds road racing record of 87.S
miles an hour, will be selected. Han
ding this latest space destroyer,
whose speed is yet a mystery, he will
have new worlds to conquer.
That the exploding of gasoline is
playing q more important part in the
European war than the exploding OF
gunpowder, is the assertion of q prom
inent military expert, writes John r.
Eustis in the New York Evening Mail.
This may seem an exaggeration, but
the fact remains that the use of gas
oline, as the fuel for aircraft and sub
marines, portable field siege lights and
motor vehicles is one of the biggest
factories in this terrible armageddon.
The motor vehicles being used in the
present European war, particularly the
motor trucks in the transport service,
are being subjected to unusually Sc
we're service. They are being worked
night and day with relays of drivers,
and get little or no garage attention.
AS result, many have become perm
| anently disabled. In addition, large
numbers have been captured by the
enemy.
To supply motor vehicles to take the
place of those whose services have
been lost, the allied armies have been
obliged to turn to America, and all
| ready orders for several thousand have
been placed with manufacturers in this
| country. Shipments of these began in
I the latter part Of September, and have
| Increased in volume steadily since that
time. The export bushes has given
| a tremendous impetus to the Ameri-
| can motor truck industry at a time
| when large orders were most needed.
| They have shed over the industry
| dazzling sunshine which promises even
| more for the future than it has pro-
duced for the present and immediate
| past.
OF the various uses of gasoline in
this war, its employment as fuel for
| motor vehicles is unquestionably Of the
| greatest Importance. 1t is propeHing
every known type, including the fast
| dispatch-bearing and scouting motor
cycle and runabout, the powerful tour
| ing cars which carry staff officers at
| high speeds through the entire theatre
| of war, or fitted with armour plate
and mounting quick-firing guns; SOW
death as they tear through the ranks
of cavalry and infantry; the easy rid
ing motor ambulances; the heavy
| trucks which transport food, supplies
and ammunition to the firing line; the
| lighter vehicles which convoy the aer-
| opfanes; the tractors which haul siege
artillery, and the big plows which
| open bitches for intrenchInents the
| trucks which mount fully-equipped
field kitchens; and portable machine
| shops, and many other similar types
| almost too numerous to mention.
| The manuals of military strategy
and tactics are, being completely re-
written by this widespread and highly
successful use of motor vehicles. In
former times the advance Of an army
was led by regiments Of cavalry. Plod-
ding along in their rear came the i'm
fantry and light artillery, and many
miles behind great teams of horses
struggled to, advance the heavy siege
guns. Now. the advance of hostile
army. is heralded by a great fleet Of
motor vehicles, travelling at high
speed. those in front protected by
armor plate and mounting !. naachine
guns, and those following many of
them large motor omnibuses, carry-
ing picked troops. In the rear of this
| flying advance comes the cavalry, and
right up with them the heavy artillery
hauled by motor tractors. The march
ing infantry is actually accompanied
by its motor transports which carry
ample supplies Of food and ammuni.
| ton.