GERMAN MILITARY TRUCKS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2734, 5 October 1914, Page 8

GERMAN MILITARY TRUCKS.

Tlu.* German Army was recently engaged upon a series of tests upon military power wagons, and these comprised three different trials upon the road in the shape of endurance tests. The Berlin automobile corps was divided into two Columns, and the first of these proceeded toward the Rieseugebirge in order to make a circuit through those mountains, which was a rather severe trial, while the second column went to the south-west to carry out its programme in Bavaria. On the other hand, the automobile corps of Saxony were engaged in making an endurance tost toward Switzerland and the Erzgebirge. Thus all the German heavy trucks wm* upon the road. Another endurance test of an interesting character was organised hy the tierman Automobile Club for various automobiles as well as motor tricycles and the like, and as it took pLjce in the Harz Mountains the ears had a very hard time, owing to a snowfall of two or three feet on the roads, near Clansthal. Here the roads were also cut up by country sledges, so that this occasioned much difficulty. Cycle cars used chains and ropes wrapped around the tyres so as to avoid slipping. However, the selected route proved to be too hard, so that an easier circuit had to be chosen. Most of the vehicles showed a good performance on this occasion.