Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors:
Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
achine tools. Such operations as cutting andhardening gear wheels and boring cylinders wereregularly carried oiit, with results as good ascould be obtained in large works at home.There was a blacksmiths shop, with smithsforges, brazing furnaces and case-hardeningfurnaces, and also a tinsmiths shop, with toolsfor the manufacture and repair of radiators,panels, mud-guards, and similar parts. Some90 men were employed, and the nmnber of cars under repair at one time was about 50. On theaverage, about five thoroughly overhauled carsloft the works daily, with about seven that liadrequired minor repaiis. In regard to the \mrt played by motor vehiclesin connexion with direct attack on the enemy,reference may first be made to the motortractors employed for hauling heavy guns intoposition. For this purpose two types ofmachine were used by the British Anny, onethe F.W.D. (four-wheels drive), and the otherthe caterpillar. In the former, as its nameindicates, not only the rear axle, as in an ordi-
Text Appearing After Image:
SCOTTISH WOMENS X-RAY CAR. THE TIMES HISTOnV OF THE WAR. 297 nary car, but also the front axle was connectedto the engine by a propeller shaft ; in this way,all the wheels being driven, the whole weight ofthe machine was utilized for adhesion and thetractive power was increased, so that heavierloads could be coped with. The caterpillar ranon a track which it laid for itself as it proceeded.The general principle of its construction wasthat there were two endless chains or bands, oneon each side, passing over sprocket wheels atthe front and rear of the machine. The links ofwhich these chains were composed carried on the touring cars for offensive purposes was to fitthem with machine guns, and it was not difficultto protect their vital parts with thin stool plateswithout detracting seriously from tho speed andmobility which perhaps formed their best safe-guard. In the early days of the war theGermans employed many cars lightly armouredin this way for scouting purposes, tho onlyarmament,

Note About Images