An Armored Motor-Car for the Navy 



It is manned by a crew of three and equip- 

 ped with searchlights and machine guns 



In the tipping test shown below the 

 car stood at thirty degrees with two 

 wheels off the ground without tipping 



THE United States Ma 

 rine Corps, first of 

 our services to use 

 motor-trucks in war- 

 fare, will be equip- 

 ped with armored 

 motor turret-cars 



for its use in tropical expeditions. The 

 turret-car weighs five thousand pounds, 

 travels forty-seven miles an hour, and 

 carries a crew of three men. It has wire- 

 cutters for road obstacles, searchlights 

 for night fighting, and machine-guns. 

 The armor, sloping at forty-five degrees, 

 will stop the bullet fired from a service 

 rifle at one hundred feet. The turret 

 has four gunports, allowing fire in any 

 direction. 



This armored car will be carried aboard 

 ship. When lowered into a motor sailer or 

 sailing launch it will rest on joists placed 

 fore and aft on the thwarts. The boat is 

 beached stern first and the car is run 

 ashore in fair weather over planks hooking 

 on to the stern, or in bad weather by shear 

 legs and a multiple block. 



In the tests the car took ditches and 

 plowed fields and ran hub deep in sand. 

 When tipped by use of a ship's crane the 



When placed on a sailing launch the 

 armored car will rest on joists placed 

 fore and aft on the thwarts as shown 



car stood at 30 

 degrees, with two 

 wheels off the 

 ground without 

 tipping. The uses 

 to which it may be 

 put are obvious. 



The Rubber Stamp Has Many Uses, 

 Good and Bad 



IT is not contended that the rubber 

 stamp is exactly on the same plane of 

 importance as the rubber tire, but in value 

 of annual product these two commodities 

 stand in about the ratio of fifty to one. 

 The car owner's annual contribution ag- 

 gregates approximately $200,000,000. That 

 of the stamp user is about $4,000,000. 



But in one particular the stamp far 

 surpasses the tire — in number. 



There are 12,000,000 tires in use in the 

 United States, to-day, while of rubber 

 stamps there are 100,000,000. 



The rubber stamp does its work faith- 

 fully and cheerfully. In fact it has become 

 recognized as a symbol of unquestioning 

 obedience, and one statesman will charge 

 another with being a "rubber stamp" in 

 fealty to an opponent. 



