Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-16
new MOTOR TRUCK
|. IS MARVELLOUS MACHINE
DESIGNED AND PERFECTED WITH
IN SEVENTY DAYS, III is LOOK
y DUPON AS ONE OF NOTABLE
ACHIEVEMENTS OF WAR.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 16.-
Americas war motor truck, perfected
less than seventy days after the work
OF designing began. is one OF the not
able achievements Of the war, 1t goes
ihand-in-hand with the Liberty air mo-
tor. Two of the three-ton trucks,
weighing approximately 10000 pounds.
left Lima, O., and Rochester, N. Y,
respectively yesteray and are now
racing toward WASHINGTON to demon
strate their road durability
These two trucks are listed as Class
B. 1t is understood there is larger
machine, probably to be listed as Glass
| A and it was announced today thar
there will be a ton-and-a-half truck
and a three-quarter truck built on
the same general plans. The trucks
are said to Guido in almost any capac
ity any motor yet constructed, far sur
passing the motor vehicles of the
German armies.
! So satisfied is the army with the
lnew truck that at least 10000 Of them
are to be built The engineers of the
war department, designers and execn-
ltives of the quartermaster corps, I'M
der the direction of Brighten, Chaun-
lcey B. Baker, director of transporta-
ltion, and the personnel of the Society
Iof Automobile Engineers elaborated
lin producing the new vehicle. Ninety
Tor a hundred companies eventually
will be engaged in turning them out.
One of the principal advantages
Iachieyed is. a single, standardized
TYPE In Europe our Allies are work
ling with dozens of different types.
with the result that they must KEEP
Ion hand at elast 100000 spare parts
of different types. Each main line Of
communication has force sufficient
Ito fill the average office building,
whose sole duty it is to supply these
parts. The new truck has only 1900
Iparts, and it will be a comparative
lily simple matter for the United States
motor truck service to keep itself SUP
Iplied with standardized parts
| The work of designing the truck
began on Aug / and has been under
1.-THE direction Of the automobile prod
lucts section Of the war industries
board consisting Of H. L. Horning.
chairman; Gen Baker; Coker r.
lClarkson. secretary and general man
lager of the Society of Automotive En-
igineers; C. w. Stiger, president of the
Motor Accessory Manufacturers asso-
ciation; Henry r. Sutphen, president
OF the Motor Boat associations Frank
Russell, president Of the Aircraft Man
ufacturers' association, and 7. W. Hem
lderson, president of the Motorcycle
Manufacturers association.
These men," said Gen. Baker,
poured out unselfishly their produce
items and DESIGNS that might have been
coined into streams of gold, and gave
them generously to their warning
land"
1.-THE work Of speedy cooperation
that characterized the production Of
1.-The Liberty aviation engine has been
equalled in the case of the war truck, :"
says the defense council. In spite of
the fact that large numebr of inter-
tests were involved in the building o.
the truck and making compromises in
design more difficult, the great unan-
unity of telling among those particle
pating makes the result the more re-
markable
"The Continental Motor Manufac
turing Company, which was one Of
!, the several engine producers partici-
pating in the program, received blue
prints on Sept. 8, and had an engine
; running nineteen days and seven adj
: oe-half hours from the time the blue
i prints reached It's factory.
, "In developing the engine four or
: five makers co-operated by dividing
! the different parts not only for itself
but for the other engine makers. in
this way time was saved The re-
} markably patriotic response of manu-
: facturers of raw and finished material
/ made possible the completion Of the
units in record time"