The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-09-03

sidered in America as one of the best
non-conductors for automobile con-
struction. But on the sea journey this
fiber swells and becomes almost use
less. Radiators also suffer much on
board ship.
In the workshops long lines of "al-
lied machinery" indicated how the
war was bringing the nations togeth-
Ter in industrial production. Each
lathe and mechanical tool bore this
allied mark. with the flags of the al
lied nations entwined, and the marks
of Paris. Turin. Petrograd and the
centers of great world production.
But below the casting showed the al
lied machinery came from Waynes-
boro, Pa, Cincinnati and the other
centers of American production.
Over section four of the big shops
waved a large American flag.
That represents something more
than patriotism" said the command
ant. "The section that makes the big
gest output has the honor of carrying
the flag for week, and if there is
slack time there is day of as bonus.
"When the big German offensive
began there was tremendous de-
mand for trucks to get our material
forward. We called the men together
and gave them little talk on the part
they were to play in the crisis. Every
man was keen to do his part. The
flag was made the prize for turning
out the most work. Before that day
closed we had turned out 63 complete
trucks. These are the things which
are helping to win the war, and they
show how the men behind the lines
are doing their share of the fighting" !"
Just now scores of ambulances are
being turned out daily. They come
from America Grated in huge boxes,
Is feet long and six feet across, as
large as good-sized room; usually
in thre parts. wheels, body and chas-
sis. Cranes from huge beams reach
down and lift the parts into place,
the chassis on the wheels, and the
body on the chassis, until soon one of
the new type of ambulances takes
form out of the mass of boxes and
material. We saw these growing from
the rough to the finished product. But
it was not all matter of fitting to-
gether, for there is much to be sup
piled here.
The new ambulance does away with
the bulky medical cabinet which took
much room just back of the drivers
seat. All the interior is now given
to the wounded. If the wounded are
able to sit up six can sit abreast. Ii
the cases are on stretchers, the seats
| fold down and the stretchers slide on
groves, with two wounded lying above
and two below Wood is no longer
used for the sides of the ambulance
as it was easily shattered by she'll
fire, and composition is substituted
for the wood. All of the old type am
balances with their medical cabinet
are being made over on the new
model at the rate of dozen a day.
| The artillery cars with special
equipment of range finders, tele-
scopes, wireless, etc.. and reconnois-
ance cars looking like big sightsee-
| ing brakes, are also being turned out
in large number. as these and the
signal corps cars are most NEEDED with
the fighting on. AS the many types
of cars are finished, they go into the
great open park to join the huge as
semblage of cars of all kinds ready
to move forward to the front 1t is
an endless procession, with one
steady stream of cars coming from
the shops, and another moving off to
the battle line.
! And besides the magnitude of this
war work which has suddenly sprung
into existence, there is the eager spir,
it of a great industrial community