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Douglas Daily International
Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona
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The U.S. War Department plans to send a motor convoy from Washington to Los Angeles over the Bankhead National Highway, starting around June 15 and arriving September 1, to study transportation challenges, vehicle types, tires, train personnel, and advocate for national highways.
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WASHINGTON, May 28. - Plans have been completed whereby the war department will send a motor convoy from Washington to Los Angeles over the Bankhead National highway on or about June 15, due to arrive in Los Angeles September 1.
The convoy will be under the supervision of the motor transportation corps and will consist of a motor transport unit complete, at war strength, one service park unit, at war strength, detachment from engineer corps, and detachment from medical corps. All motor trucks will be one and one-half tons capacity equipped with pneumatic tires.
The tour will start from Washington passing through the following states: Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, ending at Los Angeles.
The purpose of this and other over-land trips will be to study the handicaps which surround the transportation needs of the army on account of the lack of dependable and definite systems of highways; to secure data relative to the use of various types of motor vehicles; to secure relative data on solid and pneumatic tires; to train officers and men in extended field operations and to recruit personnel for the various branches of the army.
The federal highway council feels that such study by the motor transport corps will be of great value to the entire country because it will thoroughly establish the necessity of the federal government undertaking the construction and maintenance of a definite system of national highways.
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Washington
Event Date
On Or About June 15 To September 1
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Plans have been completed for the war department to send a motor convoy from Washington to Los Angeles over the Bankhead National highway, consisting of a motor transport unit, service park unit, engineer corps detachment, and medical corps detachment, all with one and one-half ton trucks equipped with pneumatic tires, passing through Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, to study army transportation handicaps due to poor highways, data on motor vehicles and tires, train officers and men, and recruit personnel.