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THE MOTOR VEHICLE IN MILITARY OPERATIONS.

10th February 1925
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At a lecture arranged by the London University Military Education Corn-_ rnittee, and given by Colonel J. F. C. Fuller at King's College a few days ago, the value of the motor lorry in military operations was clearly indicated. Colonel Fuller showed that petrol engines introduced a new factor into the Great War, and pointed out that, but for the use of motor lorries, it would have been impossible to maintain an adequate supply of shells in the fighting line. He made it known that we startell with less than 200 vehicles of this type and finished with 118,000 such machines in the fighting zone.

Prance, he said, had learnt from the war that deficiency in man power must be made good by speed of movement, obtained by means of a combined wheel and chain-track machine. Certain cavalry divisions, he said, had been converted into light mechanical divisions, consisting of cavalry and infantry and artillery carried in lorries, chain-track armoured cars and tanks. The lecturer said that the cavalry was the least mobile arm of this division, and could not move more than half of the 150 to 200 kilometres of the lorry.

Colonel Fuller suggested that, ultimately, cavalry would be superseded by tank forces, and that two types of machine would be required—a cross-country armoured car for reconnaissance work and a fast machine for pursuit.

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Organisations: King's College
People: C. Fuller

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