INTERESTING DETAILS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 6395, 23 September 1916, Page 4

INTERESTING DETAILS.

LAY THEIR OWN RAILS. 1 AND PICK THEM UP AGAIN. Washington, Kepi. lil. The framework ui' the British ;,r----1 nioured cars is said to have boon 1..ui1l by the llult Manufacturing Cuiiipnny, of Illinois, who seut over 10(1(1 of them to England. They were unaimoured when they left America. The machines resemble railway Ira.-k----layers. They have enormous tractive power, lav their own rails auiomnticeily, and pick them np •itfiin after using them, so that the wheels m vei touch I the ground.

They are construcied of Mod, :uv of 120 horse power, and we'ghi IN.WOIIis about S tons). Evidently they were armed and armoured in England.