National Post from Toronto, Ontario, Canada • 21

0 fSrunry 2T, 1943 THE. FIN AN. CI A fl MechoniieJ Equipment QasapTWTWK- W' ajR9mfp Our Vehicles Br Fighting-- Job V3EC Dominion's Armed Forces Roll on Canadian Wheels Canada produces 116 types of military vehicles. These are serving on practically every hattlefront. Some are specialized types to meet clearly denned needs, others are versatile and capable of pinch-hitting in any number of circumstances.

This year will bring further expansion in the number of types we produce. i I FT psm i i i i I lira? tliS -j lis' MR Hk being used to transport mortar with the various types being inter- crews into action. The universal barrier has proved its fighting value in the North African battle zone and on other fronts where mobility has been a major factor, the steady flow of these vehicles from the Ford Motor Co. of Canada is continuing at high pace, with production simplified and costs lowered by Ford technicians. Here a earner negotiates a changeable for many types of duties.

The 8 15 cwf and 30 cwt. lorries are used for hauling supplies, personnel and ammunition while the latter two types usually have a rear attachment that enables them to haul a field gun. 'Many other types of vehicles have specialized uses. For instance, on the 15 cwt. chassis is a water car carrying a large tank of water for thirsty fighters, along with a purifying system.

Other examples are ambulances, fire trucks, air force refuelling tenders and flare path trucks with a revolving turret for emergency lighting of air fields. More versatile are station wagons, air force freight carriers and afr force utility tractors that haul aircraft, bombs, or almost Another important fighting vehicle is the rugged, snub-nosed artillery tractor, equipped with four-wheel drive and capable of hauling three tons of gun and limber, plus ammunition, through bush and over terrain that would stop a farm tractor. The Canadian industry produces-three types of wireless truck. These units move with the combat forces, enable a close instant contact to be kept between different sections of the army. The 12 types of mobile workshops carry equipment to repair transport vehicles on the spot, saving valuable time and often rescuing valuable equipment.

A cousin of this branch of the fighting forces is the four-ton wrecker, slope on the tor A testtttg ground. War Causes Lunch Box Boom Demand for Them Up 3,000 equipped with a tremendously of the most telling answers to the tank has been the six-pounder anti-lank gun. light and mobile, with a tremendously high muzzle of velocity, its six-pound solid shot is reported capable of stopping the largest enemy tanks. Here General Motors employees test the recoil mechanism of the gun. breakage.

It provided thousands of workmen with an opportunity of packing a supply of hot tea and a nutritious lunch into a ranitary container which could withstand hard knocks and rough usage. The original lunch box, called the 'doghouse" because of its shape, has been superseded by many others. The influx of women into the war industry has resulted in the design of small, brightly colored boxes modelled after the hundreds of thousands sold to school children. The shortage of metals is speeding the introduction of the fibre-type lunch box, while postwar plans, anticipating a more universal popularity for the lunch box, call for a wider use of plastics and other modern materials. powerful crane and a winch fore nything.else to be moved around and aft, enabling it to pull itself a fjying field, out of a hole by its own bootstraps.

Together, all these types of ve-This wrecker has six sets of wheels hide represent a tremendous and a six-wheel drive "six by Canadian contribution to the war six" in army parlance. It has' effort. This contribution is a com-acetylene Equipment and an air plete one fast-moving vehicles to pressure tank. Prime purpose of spot weaknesses in the enemv's In one out of every three Canadian families someone now takes a lunch box to work, according to a survey by the Empire Tea Bureau. Orders for lunch boxes are running 3,000 ahead of peacetime and the users include not only men and women in the skilled and unskilled labor groups, but hundreds of business executives and professional men." Undertaken as a study of the.

effects of rationing on workers' lunch -habits, the bureau's survey revealed that only 6 of the -workers who use lunch boxes have discontinued carrying tea or coffee because of rationing. One third of these who continue to do however, secure their supply romf the allowance of some other member of the family. The study showed that 77 of the workers who take a thermos to work fill it with hot and half of thdse who carry lunch boxes are employed in the war industries. The" first modern-type lunch box was introduced in 1909 after the perfection of a vacuum flask which could be carried in a horizontal position without fear of the wrecker is to transport equip positionsj hard-hitting fighting vehicles to smash at those weakness facture of combat cars. Last year these types were added to the list: Scout cars.

Armoreti vehicles. Reconnaissance car. -Armored cr. Armored 4-wheel drive. Gun porteec.

6 Jt 6 workshop. Office and wlreleH vehicles. Dental vehicle. Light ambulance. Various The number of types will be expanded during 1943.

What they ment back towhere it can be repaired. Behind the fighting vehicles there must be thousands of trans- In 1914 when 2,000 Paris taxi Canadian-made vehicles except cabs jolted to the Marne, rushing for some of the heaviest types, poilus to stem the German tide, The motor industry is virtually the wartime place of mechanical one large arsenal working to capa- transport first burst into dramatic city for the United Nations. Last headlines. month Munitions Minister D. Today's war of manoeuvre de- Howe reported "that Canadian pends largely on the speeding plants have turned out mechanical vheels and driving horsepower of transport and other fighting ve-mechanical transport hides, which if parked on the road-Part of the story of mechanized side, would form a column 1,000 equipment is represented by miles long.

plunging tanks, slashing scout cars Official word is that Canadian es when they have been found, and tough, rugged vehicles to follow the fighting and do essential job ports. These trucks are versatile of keeping the supply lines' open. will be has not yet been announced but some of their qualities may nd other hard-hittfng products vehicles are rated very highly by well be shaped by invasion plans. that do the actual fighting. But all users, and within the range of Cn for Cavalry these fighting units move for- tasks for which they are designed- jn tne of sioW.m0ving war ward they compound the problem are considered preferable to other army reconnaissance was carried of supply.

Food, fighting equip- makes. The Germans admit their out iargely by cavalry. Today's ment and relief for the wounded superiority and have ordered that reconnaissance battalions are must keep pace with the combat captured they be used for units. This put a heavy burden the more difficult tasks in prefer the wartime version of the erence to their own. For the many and widely varied needs of modern war Canada is producing 116 different types of military vehicles.

The list is: peacetime commercial carrier. Germany, in its years of preparation for World War II, recognized the importance of this type transport, built its famed auto Canada Is Frsdnclng equipped with scout cars--not unlike peacetime passenger cars but carrying armor and known in army slang as "blitz buggies." As their name signifies, scout cars are primarily used forTquick dashes to Teconnoitre the enemy's position the job formerly done by cavalry. Running mate of the scout car is the armored reconnaissance car. This "recce" car is completely covered with armor plate, sports a turret and resembles a tank on wheels. One of the best known fighting Universal carriers.

mm i bahnen wide hi saw ays primarily wireie trucks types). in Ambulances t4 types) ITT irumary use. Field workshops U2 types). 3Tlr trucks (3 types). Army mechanized transport (90 types on 13 different chassis.

Reconnaissance cars. Scout cars. Armored cars. Foresaw the Need Canada, too, saw the vital place motor transport for war. The Canadian, army, said to be one of the most highly mechanized Emphasize Combat Cars No table during 1942 was the vehicles produced by the J2ana- la the world, moves entirely on heavier emphasis placed on manu- dian aut0motive industry is the universal carrier.

Capable of hitting up to 45 m.p.h. these low-slung World War-II creations resemble baby tanks without a turret. On their full caterpillar treads they can travel over very rough terrain, quickly transport- Sees Beveridge Report Challenge For Today 1 0 Lomloa Say. PostWar Planning 2TZg1 Must Be Based on Expansion and Adaptability work these carriers are now also Not Restriction and Ossification The Beveridge report continues to "There is wide agreement on the be a subiect for much diseuwion in possibility of preserving a suffici-. ently large and sufficiently regular the United Kingdom.

Due to the widespread interest in the same subject in Canada, there are reproduced liert iome verbatim extracts from a recent article on the report by the Lendon Economist "Not the least gratifying volume of investments, by means of a policy by which, the government, while, stimulating private invest-ment'to the utmost, will be prepared, if private investment feels likely to fall short, to make up the total to inlorcement to the policy of a physical minimum. It would be a great aid in the maintenance of employment; and by' the encouragement of larger scale production, it would assist the" export trade. It would be done under state direction but it would be carried out by private New Means Necessary "The planners task is to find new means to achieve the old ends that is, the greatest possible quantity of what consumers want and need at prices that they can pay. This is not only economic good sense; jt is good democracy too. -Planning, in this view, means precisely the opposite of what its the level required for full employ- about the welcome which, the pro- posali have been given is the general ment by its own prompt projects.

"There is general agreement, too, understanding that the commitments Goodyear research anticipated the punishment these rUgged tites would hailstorms of bullets, sea? of mud, sharp rocks, broken metal rupture hazards every foot of the way: Goodyear gave the Army not only the tires it needed but it created stamina and dur-, rmed-of in peace- that the maintenance of in goods, can be powerfully reinforced by the policy of a national minimum, involving, first, the can only be borne if the goods can be delivered in physical terms, if err.plqyment and output and trade can be maintained, and the national income built up and expanded. further redistribution of incomes on the lines proposed in the Beveridge In short, it is common ground between both the open supporters plan, and secondly, the redistribu- opponents claim. It means expansion and not restriction. It means adapt tion of goods to secure a physical and the muttering critics of the Bev-ridge proposals that the prime objective must be, not the income mini. num, which is subsidiary, but the Physical minimum.

Reconstruction ts many rooms, but it is -a single building; and there are four obvious minimum, perhaps on lines which have been made familiar by wartime 1 practice. A Different Approach The government might call for aDuiiy jf afetv. ability and not ossification. It means the physical mhiimum plus, the utmost enterprise and development If, under the false cloak of private enterprise, trie job of working out future economic policy i is handed over, to busines's men organized in sectional associations, with unlimited power over both competitors simple specifications from private time performance and protect. that will carry over into ur car on conditions for achieving the physi- 'industry, for the'msuiufacture of a ct minimum.

They are the main- limited ranee of each of the main tenance of emnlovmcntt the main-- ratMrnnM 'durable eonsumrjtion nance of investment; the malntcnv goods, including clothing household 'and the Job will not be done. It is the sole responsibility nee of ponsumntion: and the furniture and so on and peace years every car that rolls on bearing "The Greatest Same in Rubber" and high privilege of the representatives of the people, faced, with the challenge of the Beveridge report and all its implications, to make clear at once that they see the right road ahead, and will do their duty." perhaps even houses and conventional necessities such as wireless sets, refrigerators, gramophones and mdtor cars. Cost would have to be carefully examined in order to get more and more articles produced maintenance of trade. Problem of Maintenance The four conditions are not sep-ate ar.d distinct. They are different spects of the same process.

Employment can only be maintained if investments and consumption are efficiently large and sufficiently wgular. The maintenance of both investment and consumption de- more and more, cheaply; and maxi- mum, but not minimum, prices might Cotton Operations be fixed in order to maintain tne Trt Tnniiiirv incentive to cost reductions. JJrop in January nrnwnvw. -fthile the production Cotton textile mill operations in Wnds upon the maintenance of le, that is, of essential imports and prices of these utility goods Canada declined hv January Dur-n of exports to pay for them. The would be controlled, manufacturers ing the month.

33,083 bales of cotton fridge report is a challenge to would remain free to Vcater for were opened, WeJl government -not simnlv to say higher prices and luxury the previous month, and Piece about social security, but and nothing need be done, to impede January 7' since 'f to show its understanding that the introduction of new articles, or bales l-' tU if r.v tr stifle thfe technical imoravement the s'tart of the war. Witneut anow- maior nroblems for holidays. i'4 rnrfilas nAf cuff irint Iv flvnrf a UK wwciiura win raiita uduii i t. v. fr imu mn.

erauons on a a-aay-weeK-wasis, at the rat Such a scheme miht January peniags were m. nly fall if equality of educational eover a part the naUea's of MM MMaw yf eo tunitie and of mediee! twat- efrpenditure on durable- eoniuasptioei 87JB3eT 1,710 eannet be rwrlded. good. wtmld be a powerful re- Ne-embr..