Why spend great sums in bombarding the enemy's entrenched position with artillery when a fleet 

 of torpedo automobiles, each carrying a charge of high explosive, could be launched with 



The Torpedo Car— It Destroys Trenches 



Also it takes the place of artillery in 

 preparing the way for infantry attack 



MOTOR 



PROTECTION 



SHIELD 



CONTROL 

 LEVER 



A WELL-DIRECTED bombardment 

 ("artillery preparation" is the polite 

 military term) preceding an infantry 

 attack obliterates breastworks and barbed- 

 wire entanglements, and literally blasts the 

 enemy from his entrenched position. From 

 experience under such a hail has come the 

 fighting 

 man's dic- 

 tum, "Better 

 to face a 

 whole regi- 

 ment than 

 brave an 

 hour's artil- 

 lery fire!" 



But even 

 though the 

 use of modern 

 artillery has 

 worked a rev- 

 olu tion in 

 battle prac- 



CONTBOL AND 



RECOVERY 



CABLE 



What the torpedo car looks like. Note that the 

 control cable regulates the speed of the machine 

 and that the firing wire sets off the explosive 



tice, preparing the way for an infantry 

 charge entails a staggering cost. For that 

 reason inventors have tried, and indeed 

 still are trying, to substitute some agency 

 which will replace the big guns and do their 

 work cheaper but no less efficiently. 



The device illustrated, which may be 



called a tor- 

 pedo car, be- 

 cause it is 

 nothing more 

 than a tor- 

 pedo mount- 

 ed on an auto- 

 mobile 

 chassis, is an 

 attempt to 

 relegate artil- 

 lery to the 

 scrap heap 

 and substi- 

 tute in its 

 stead a cheap. 



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