The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04
Automobile News
GASOLINE IN THE WAR.

tsBrobdingnag of Battle and of
Business is the Title of a. live wire
bulletin now being issued by the
Packard Motor Car company. It
mess men.
Mars is motorized.
Gasoline is greater than gun pow
der. Twentieth century war demands
the power of high explosive put into
| harness.
| Never was an engine of war subject
ed to such tests as the motor truck
| in Europe. That the engine in. the
case was taken from the humdrum
commercial field intensifies the tri-
umph. Truly, the great war will go
/ down as the Automobile Arranged
| Trains oftmotor trucks are the chief
means of transport. They carry food
for the man and food for the cannon.
They carry also the cannon.
By their faith in the motor truck,
the captains of war have shamed the
lesser faith of many captains of indus
| try.
When the Germans poured across
Belgium, one saw storehouses. bake
shop, forge, and cobbler shop setting
Sherman's Atlanta Mule Express, the
lola time record holder as a war spe-
| ciaI.
Compared to these massive steel car
riers. HannibaFs e1ephantine trans
ports were puny things. They we've
good in their day but a bigger day
has dawned
y On the present crazy-quilted con-
tour of cramped old Europe where
today's trench is traded tomorrow,
railroads do not stay put. What you
don't tear up in your retreat, the
| enemy destroys. Bridges and tunnels
are dynarnited, embankmentss eta
ced. rails warped and terminals RACED.
War was the opportunity of Aneri-
can motor trucks. How did they re-
IRpond:
| The Department of Commerce
averaged in value from two and one
to three ond one-half millions of dol
! lars per month last fall. More
] trucks have been shipped in so days
than were shipped during the whole
/ Of 1918.
It is war on wheels. Trucks
brought up the Jack Johnsop's''
that -'golunpused'' the forts of Liege,
Maubeuge and Namur. Ga1lieni mo-
ltored 70. 900 men from Paris to Meaux
a distance of thirty miles in six hours
when he heard Won Kluck knocging
at the outer gates of the French cap
itaI. Thirty thousand motor vehicles
account for the amazing mobility of
1.-THE Kaiser's forces in the Eastern
| theatre Of war.
In the rear, in the van, rushing
ammunition to the breech of the cam
non hurrying thousands of wounded
to the base hospitals, the truck has
Travelled over good, bad, worse and
]seven no roads in every plague O
weather
In the destructive work of war
time, the motor truck is no longer or
4 trial. How long will the generals il
the constructive work OF commerce.
cling to their time-worn methods o.
s. hauling?
Il Today in Europe. the tramp,l tramp
tramp-what there is OF it, is lost il
Fl the putt, putt, putt of the Tories
The motor truck has even n1uff1eS
1.-THE drums of war. Along with the fife
the drum has passed to the muse
un1s The pulse of the gasoline mo
tor is the only soul ignition the fight
er of today asks or can beaI. TIL
motor truck carries the superio
force to the point of contact
What the motor truck has done il
a few months in war. it is certain t.
do more gradually in the more de
Hibernate contests of business. Neve
before was the motor truck SO full o
interest for men who are on speal1ini
: terms with the opportunity.