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510 ILLUSTRATED WORLD
One of the "Big Boys"
This formidable machine cost approximately $3,000 to build.
men as a "crew," and has two fighting turrets, placed one
this pattern can "do" about twenty-five
miles an hour only.
Such an armored motor-car costs
$5,000. There is, however, a larger and
more formidable type, costing $8,000,
which has two turrets, providing for two
machine-guns, and carrying a "crew" of
five or six. The front turret is higher
than the rear turret, so that the gunner
inside of it can fire over the
after turret if there is occasion
so to do—as, for instance,
while running away from a
pursuing enemy.
The mechanism of
this superior type of fort
on wheels is so modified
that power is applied to
all four of the wheels.
Thus it is enabled to
run over much rougher
ground than would be
practicable otherwise.
The newest wheeled
forts of this description
have a second steel shutter
at the back, with a
rear seat for the driver.
This provision is made
in order that the vehicle,
if desired, may be driven
rear end first. In fact,
one of the most important
advantages of this
It carries five or six
above the other.
type of armored motor
is that it can run backward
as readily as for­
ward, and at an equal speed. It is, in
effect, a "double-ender"—a great convenience
in an emergency, when it may
not be easy or safe to negotiate a turnabout.
THE CAR OF LAST YEAR
This type of armored fort is owned by the New York National Guard—a present to them from private business—and also
by Northwestern Military Academy.