224 Popular Science Monthly 



The Latest Device for Easy Entrance 

 to Automobile Doors 



THE last word in easy-entrance auto- 

 mobile doors permits direct entrance 

 to both the front and rear seats of a 

 close-coupled four-passenger roadster. The 

 special feature of the design 

 is the fact that one-half 

 of the front seat opens 

 with the door. When 

 closed, the division 

 in the seat appears 

 as a fold in the ■ 

 upholstery. 



The door may 

 be opened from 

 either the front or 

 rear seat. It is 

 provided with a 

 safety lock to pre- 

 vent its opening of 

 its own accord 

 while the car is in 

 motion. It is 



hinged on two 

 heavy concealed 

 hinges at the front 

 and runs in a track 

 so that it cannot spring out of position. 



4,000 lbs, meat 

 1 ,400 lbs. of sugar 

 1,200 lbs. beans 

 1,500 loaves of bread 

 400 lbs. of coffee 



50 bags of potatoes 

 100 lbs. of tea 

 300 gals, of milk 

 500 lbs. of butter 

 600 lbs. of oatmeal 



The Largest Traveling Kitchen 

 in the World 



THE ordinary dining-car, compact as a 

 watch in its arrangement, can feed 

 thirty persons at one sitting. The commis- 

 sary car illustrated, which 

 is the type used by Canada 

 in transporting her troops, 

 can feed 1,200 men at one 

 sitting, and the food can be 

 served in fifteen minutes. 



The Canadian commis- 

 sary car is the largest travel- 

 ing kitchen in the world. It 

 is eighty feet long, has a full- 

 size hotel range, steam- 

 cooking apparatus, and 

 sixty-foot refrigerator space 

 and store room capacity for 

 tons of provisions. Eight 

 cooks work in it without 

 interfering with each 

 other. 



A battalion of 1,200 men 

 en route from Camp Borden, 

 Ontario, to Halifax, Nova 

 Scotia, consumes: 



In the movement of a battalion, two com- 

 missary cars are used, the military special 

 being run in two sections. The big dining- 

 car is placed in the center. of the 

 train in order that it may be 

 readily accessible to the waiters, 

 who enter it from both front 

 and rear. 



As soon as 

 the first two 

 W coaches have 

 been supplied, 

 two more squads 

 of waiters arrive 

 until all are served. 

 Within fifteen 

 minutes after the 

 dinner bell has 

 been sounded the 

 men are all busy 

 with their meal. 



Along the wide 

 kitchen counter 

 are spread the 

 various portions of food. If it is breakfast 

 time and the morning menu calls for oat- 

 meal, meats, potatoes, bread and butter, 

 jam and coffee, the food is served about as 

 follows: — Two men take the big trays of 

 meats and potatoes, another the bread, 

 coffee, and so on, until all the food has been 

 carried away on the trays. 



One half of the front seat opens with the 

 door, making easy entrance to front and rear 



The kitchen of the Canadian commissary car. It accommodates 

 eight cooks. Food for 1,200 men can be served in fifteen minutes 



