MOTOR CARS IN WAR.
« . TRANSPORT TEST. A BATTALION AND ITS BAGGAGE. (DV.TELEOKAPU—I'BESS ASSOCIATION—COI'VIIIGIIT.} London, Morcli 18. In order to test tlie practicability of nmploying motor-cars in time of warfare, the Automobile Association conveyed a battalion of Guards, at full strength, with its baggage, from London to Hastings, oil tin south coast, in threo and a half hours, Two hundred; and eighty-six cars and twenty-eight lorries wero employed. The column on the liiovo .was seven miles long. Only a few minor mishaps occurred duriug tho journey.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 461, 20 March 1909, Page 5
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85MOTOR CARS IN WAR. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 461, 20 March 1909, Page 5
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