Identifier: reviewofreviewsw54newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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a tropical, arid, roadless,uncivilized, provenderless (for man andbeast) countr)-. Commencing with twoburn, orders of twent>--eight trucks each(constituting a company or convoy) totwo large manufacturers, one in Detroit,Mich., and the other in Kenosha, Wis.,which were filled within thirty hours afterreceipt, the Quartermasters Division quick-ly placed contracts for more than a mil-lion dollars worth of motors, and by April1, over 200 trucks were actually on theborder and in the interior.In six weeks after \illa raid-ed Columbus, more than .^00motors were in the service ofthe Funston-Pershing expedi-tion. MOTOR TRUCKS THE SALVA-TION OF Ol R ME.XICANE.XPEDITIOX Not so dramatic as in Eu-ropean warfare, but farmore dogmatic in results hasbeen the motor trucks testas an engine of war in theMexican campaign. In theJuly, 1^13. issue of the Re-view OF Reviews (TheMotor vs. the Mule in theU. S. War Department)the author gives detailedfigures of the amount of THE ARMY JXD THE MOTOR TRUCK 417
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Inienullutval Iliii. Strnce GIANT TRACTOR L3ED BY UNITED STATES ARMY CUTS NUMBER OF MEN IN BATTERY FROM 195 TO 120 AND ELIMINATES 160 HEAD OF HORSES provender required to provision man andbeast, and the haulage capacit)- of the reg-ulation four-mule army team. These dataapply to civilized conditions of war-fare—not to Mexican conditions, whicharc so abnormally strenuous that even if ithad been climatically practical to use mules,the capacities of the loads wotild have beenmore than halved due to Mexican tractiveconditions—roadless deserts with either sandor mud to the hubs of vehicles. It wasphysically impossible to use anything but me-chanical transports, and that mechanicaltransport was the motor truck, because thetraction engine was debarredby weight and slow speedfrom practical application.Without motor trucks, thenational war departmentwould have been restrictedto its operations entirely c*nthe border. MOW THE WAR DEfARTMENT M/T THE TRtCK.S ON HIRRV-LP ORDERS With output* of

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