DOMINIONS WISE TO ADOPT ARMY MOTORS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18012, 24 November 1926, Page 8

DOMINIONS WISE TO ADOPT ARMY MOTORS.

GOOD FOR COMMERCE AND USEFUL IN DEFENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.- -Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association; (Received November 24, 11 a.m.) LONDON, November 23. The military expert of the “ Daily Telegraph,” commenting on the Dominion representatives’ interest in the sixwheeled motors, convertible into caterpillar traction, which were seen at the Oamberley manouevres, says: “Miany times Australia's sixty.two battalions of citizen force infantry would he utterly inadequate to defend the Australian continent, but 62 battalions of machine guns in cross-country carriers would be capable of such rapid concentration and movement that no invading army of infantry, or cavalry, could hope to make effective headway. “By encouraging their use for commercial purposes, for which they are most economical, the Dominions would help the British motor industry, while facilitating the mechanilisation of the Army and forming a valuable line of true Imperial co-operation.”