SIX-WHEELERS IN PICTURES.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 151, 30 June 1928, Page 7

SIX-WHEELERS IN PICTURES.

TUB Do Luxe Theatre was crowded yesterday afternoon when Major Jennings, D.b.0., exhibited one of the latest deelopments in 'motor traction in the six-wheeled vehicle. He explained that the. "tank" in warfare made its appearance in 1910. Out of the tank, a British invention, had been developed certain mechanical principles applicable to vehicles for other than war purposes. Ho showed a long series of pictures, in which six-wheeled vehicles were being put through very severe trials in England over exceedingly rough, unroaded country, on grades of 1 in 3 and 1 in 5, with "rotten" formations, and through scrub and swamps. The pictures were of exhaustive experiments carried out by the Royal Army. Ordnance Corps, under War Office instructions. There were shown cars, lorries, and vans, singly and as convoys, being put through tests which were conducted by Army officers with the object, it was stated, of collecting data for military purposes. The vehicles were shown mounting steep hills, crossing rivers and ditches, traversing bogs, and fording streams. They were also shown being tested under severo wintry conditions, ploughing through snow and mud over tho axles. The application of the six-wheel principle bad been fouud of great service, said Major Jennings, in roadless tracts of country in India and China, standing up as well as tho British testings as shown in tho pictures. The largo audience followed the pictures with the closest attention and,showed particular interest in. the "close-ups" of the mechanism, which enabled the four back wheels to travel each at a different height. A British topical news gazette preceded the Amiy test pictures.