SIX-WHEELED VEHICLES
ARMY TEST FILM Armoured cars and trucks that climb up and down steep hillsides and across quagmires, were seen in a film shown : at the Strand Theatre yesterday mornThe film was taken at the official j tests of a fleet of six-wheeled Morris • vehicles recently purchased by the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and | tested on Salisbury Plains, England. The picture showed some of these powerful and ingenious pieces of British motor engineering in action, fording rivers, climbing grades of one in two sweeping through mud three feet deep, and traversing broken country with ease. Such cars and trucks are of interest to New Zealanders in view of the difficult conditions of transport in the backblocks. Before the screening of the picture ;an address was given by Major W. I. j K. Jennings, D. 5.0., who acted as the ; New Zealand military representative i at the actual trials.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 416, 26 July 1928, Page 12
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