Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
STANDARD CARS Of
ORDNANCE BUREAU
VARIETY OF THE VEHICLES AND
PARTS KEPT TO A MINIMUM
BY CONSTANT EFFORT.

OF THE VEHICLES AND
PARTS KEPT TO A MINIMUM
BY CONSTANT EFFORT.
MANY BOOKKEEPERS NEEDED
Civil Service Examinations for Such
Positions to Be Held WeekIy-Raw
Cotton From the United States Goes
to Spain.
(FTom Committee on Public I~nformation.)
Observation-Disclosures the standard
motor vehicles being provided by the
ordnance bureau are the following:
The ammunition truck, which has
a steel body designed to accommo- |
date packing boxes of any type of
ammunition mounted on a four-wheel
drive truck chassis. The equipment
repair truck, making use of the same /
type of chassis, has bins and drawers
for spare parts and material for re-
pairing personnel equipment, rifles
and machine guns, leather equip
ment, etc.
The artillery repair truck has a
four-wheel drive chassis and a small
machine-shop body with equipment
consisting of a lathe, drill press, |
bench grinder, electric drill, welding
outfit, air riveting hammer, milling at
tachment, blacksmith outfit, and other
tools. Electric power is supplied by
a gasoline-driven generator.
The 2h-ton artillery tractor weighs
about 5000 pounds and is capable OF
making II miles an hour under favor
able road conditions. The fve-ton ar
tillery tractor, weighing 5000 pounds
n capable of a speed Of six miles
an hour, will handle a load of 10000
pounds. It is intended for use with
4.7-inch gun and 6-inch howitzer nate
rial. A load of $4,000 pounds is the
maximum for the lotion artillery
tractor, which will make about Az
miles an hour on high speed.
The 15-ton artillery tractor and the
120-horsepower artillery tractor will
be supplied in limited numbers. They
are of the track-laying type similar to
those used by the French and British
governments and are for heavy loads
which are not subdivided for transpor-
tation.
Other standard motor equipment
consists of the reel and f%ire-control
truck with a four-wheel drive truck
chassis and a wheels replaced by
caterpillar trucks; reconnaissance car,
a 1-ton truck capable of a speed of
from 30 to 40 miles an hour; the light
repair truck, weighing about 2,400
pounds; the 1h-ton trailer for anti
aircraft guns; the 3-inch field gun
trailer, which Is utilized for hauling
ammunition as well as the 3-inch gun
material.
Tanks and other armored land We
hicles are designed, procured, and
maintained by the ordnance bureau.
There has been a constant effort to
keep the variety of vehicles and parts
to a minimum. Only one size of tire
Is used on all the heavier trucks and
trailers, this size also being used on
similar vehicles by the quartermaster
corps, signal corps and engineers.
The same magnetic is used on all types
of ordnance vehicles. All types of
ordnance truck bodies are inter-
changeab1e on all truck chassis issued
to the artillery.
So urgent is the governments need
for bookkeepers that civil service ex-
aminations to fill positions of this
character will be held throughout the
United States each Tuesday until fur
Their notice. Women as well as meI
are eligible.
Two classes of examinations are an
nounced. A grammar school educa
ton or its equivalent is required Of
applicants for each class, with thu
further stipulation that those who
wish to take the bookkeeper-type
writer examination must have had Al
least six months experience in book
> keeping, and those who would under
t take the clerk-bookkeeper examina
= ton, one years experience in clerica
D work, six months of which must hav'
been in bookkeeping. The vacancies
t to be filed from the register obtained
:, from these examinations are in the de
t partmental service at Washington ant
offer entrance salaries of $1,000
! year.
r These examinations are open no
t only to all citizens of the UniteC
= States but also to subjects of allie
nations who are otherwise qualiie'
t for the positions offered.
: There is being prepared in the ad
: tutant generals Office a new 'pa.
e card' which will be kept by the pei
$ sonnet officer and will show the pa
status of the man at all times. Shout
= a man be transferred or detache
from his company he will carry hi
r card with him. This is expected t
It eliminate the many cause for dc
Isyed payments of men so transferred
n aad to do away with many of the ar
noyances that have heretofore existed
During the first year of val tn
army paid $780, 100000 for horse-draw
vehicles and harness; more than $50
T 0OO,O o0 for horses, mules and harness
= Expenditures for the fiscal year enc
ing June 80, 1919, for fuel and forag
are estimated at more than 100000
600.
~ A standard system Of inspection b
: which federal food administrator
may keep a check on commercial bal
- ers Is being worked out by the d,
partnect of agriculture and the foo
administration.
>, A national school poster competitio
:. has been put under way by the n
tioral war savings committee. PrizC
Of war savings stamps are to
n awarded for the best posters dealir
"a with war savings stamps and certi
:" Gates, designed by pupils of publ
schools and are schools. The conte
will close May Is.