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196 The Motor in Warfare
From a photograph, copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
Motor-driven trucks, which follow in the wake of the French army, carrying
tanks of pure drinking-water.
in which motor-vehicles have been employed
in considerable numbers, but various
other directions may be indicated in
which the gasolene motor has played its
part. Travelling workshops, for example,
accompany the British motor-lorries,
and have thereby materially contributed
to the efficiency of
the transport service.
The French
army has for several
years past made
a feature at its annual
manoeuvres of
the use of portable
search-lights conveyed
on eighteenhorse-power
chassis.
Each of these carries
a long length of
cable on a drum behind
the driver's
seat, so that the
search-light can be
put into operation
a considerable distance
away from
the vehicle itself.
The French started
the war, therefore,
with a serviceable
equipment of these
useful combinations,
and a large
number were subsequently
ordered for
the British and Belgian
forces also.
From photographs by the Record Press, London,
The British and French
armies alike employ
motor-vehicles in connection
with the field
telephone and telegraph
service, and also
for the purposes of wireless
telegraphy.
A type of machine of
which the use is confined
to the German army is
the motor-plough, designed
for trench-cutting
purposes. There
are no means of ascertaining
as to what extent
this has been employed,
but I know
definitely that the machine exists as a
type, for a friend of my own, who was in
Germany not long before the war broke
out, saw a number of these mechanical
ploughs in a large automobile manufactory,
and noted that they were fitted
with engines of no less than two hun-
A Krupp gun, showing the method of dismounting and carriage.