The convoy without a doubt played a huge roll in the future General-of-the-Army’s impressions on the importance of an interstate highway system. View firstdivisionmuseum’s profile on Facebook, View firstdivmuseum’s profile on Instagram, View firstdivmuseum’s profile on Pinterest, View UCtCP9EZifmeG0Do8T3aoEQA’s profile on YouTube, The Liberty Tests its Limits: The 100th Anniversary of the Trans-Continental Convoy, Carbide Generator Update: Well, at least it looks good… March 12th, 2019, A New Branch for a New Army: The brief life of the US Army Motor Transport Corps. The long awaiting tool-up to produce and ship the completed trucks had finally caught up to demand…just in time for it to ramp up for the draw-down. These two features had to be modified in order to mount to the Liberty accurately (I apologize to all the brass-era restorers out there who are sobbing while reading this). Hello and happy holidays! These tasks as well as the general oversight and coordination of the trucks as a fleet were the mission of the MTC. There is also a mount outlined in the contract photo of the long-bell horn made for ‘Class-B trucks’ under contract for the government. Thanks Ralph! As time went on, the motor truck only continued to become more prominent in US military planning. The convoy will include vehicles from the past 100 years of US military equipment and may also include one or two WW1-era vehicles. Appearing in a series of photos from an accident on a motor truck convoy, no other trucks leaving Velie I have found show the long type horn aside from this one convoy. It is in fact a Model 712 which is pre-dates the 1012-B by a few years, but works exactly the same: Water goes in the top, drips slowly onto Calcium carbide pellets which makes acetylene gas which powers the search light! I want to thank Will ‘Adrian’ Winget for providing some very helpful information regarding horns and bracket images for this post. This truck appears to have a Klaxon-3 model with vertical push rod and also appears to be on a swivel, or severely bent mount. The MTC-TCC was an attempt to cross from coast to coast with standardized military trucks and gain valuable data and experience from it which the military could use in developing the relatively new concept of motorized transport. This broken spring was indicative of one of our greatest challenges working on anything related to this truck: a fear of breaking anything. These companies were organized of 20-30 vehicles and tasked with transportation duties related to their parent units as assigned. I know that amongst the many anniversaries this year revolving around WW2 and with WW1 having completed its own centennial celebrations last year, the last thing on anybody’s minds right now is 1919. Er wurde in großen Stückzahlen auch den Verbündeten überlassen. The Liberty's four-speed transmission coupled with its 52-hp engine gave the truck a top speed of about 15 miles per hour (24 km/h). Liberty truck bezeichnet keine Automarke, sondern ein von mehreren Herstellern produziertes Modell. They also had a picture of a complete and totally original unrestored Liberty sitting in a garage. Over this past weekend the First Division Museum staff and volunteers brought our truck ‘Nancy’ out to an off-site event for the first time: World War 1 Days at Midway Historic Village in Rockford, IL. It built the foundation upon which the Quartermaster (and later Transportation) Corps would define truck and equipment maintenance. Hey folks! These screws are also integral to mounting the horn to its bracket. After a brief hiatus (and renewing our site domain) I’m back in the saddle to regale you with stories of the Liberty! All rights reserved. After a short trip to the wire wheel, some primer and paint the horn is smooth, clean and mounted to the truck. Ours only hooks to one main line which feeds the search light. The other big difference appears to be the materials used; the older 712 is all brass construction whereas the 1012-B appears to have had a brass top reservoir and a steel or aluminum lower cannister which was painted black (prior to being painted drab to match the truck). British Military Trucks of World War One Types and Variants of British-Built and Non-British-Built Trucks in British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Flying Corps Service 1914-18 Types and Variants of British-Built and Non-British-Built A long and convoluted supply system and corresponding funding meant that at the end of the day a supply officer or NCO’s request would take afar longer than necessary. By the late summer of 1918, it was evident that something had to give. After further research and close observation, the horn is not only the correct model but appears to have formerly been mounted on an actual liberty truck. And there in lies our next hiccup: we have a horn, but no mount. The convoy became instrumental in determining the state of America’s automobile infrastructure and the requirements for sound military truck design, both results which left an indelible mark on the future president’s decisions to implement the interstate road system. Soldiers of Motor Truck Train #317 pose with their handiwork- a brand new wrecked liberty enroute from its assembly point at Velie Motor Company in Moline, Illinois to Camp Funston, Kansas. And like the formation of many groups and organizations throughout history the MTC was born out of a need for organization amongst chaos. No hydraulics, cylinders or fluids involved whatsoever. Weapons and equipment by Adie Roberts Standard B Liberty Truck As is fairly common with soft skinned offerings from ICM we have been provided with a multi-part chassis. At this time our money is on the mount style encountered at the Fort Eustis Museum simply because it is of a style which would better perform given the rear-push style of Klaxon horn used and brace the horn best from rear-applied force. ICM has continued to combine model offerings in order to provide something different, This time they have combined their Standard B Liberty truck with the WW1 US Infantry in 1/35th scale. The Army eventually contracted with 15 automakers, including Packard and Pierce-Arrow, to build what was officially called the Standard B truck. Market data provided by Factset. This was particularly handy when replacing a broken shoe toggle tension spring. Parts Update #2, Liberty Truck Lighting Systems PART 2: Did We Say Electric? Now the biggest issue with brass-era automobile lighting is that there isn’t a whole lot of technical data out there immediately available for you in terms of measurements and model years. In addition to the inability to obtain parts, the sheer number of parts to support the seemingly impossible array of vehicles both foreign, domestic and in between complicated an already strained Quarter Master Corps system which was overburdened even without the advent of motor vehicles. We also received our custom fabricated horn mount we’ve been dying to get which was the last piece of the puzzle. Polish military records quoted in Tarczynski’s book show that as of June 1936 at least 3 trucks remained in service with the 1st Anti Aircraft regiment, two of which were scrapped in early 1939. For those of you not familiar, the accelerator pedal in the liberty is pushed to the right with the side of the driver’s foot, rather than depressed to the floor with the bottom of the foot as is the case with the clutch and brake foot pedals. The ‘B’s’ as they are frequently called in contemporary accounts entered the convoy part way and came down to meet them from Chicago, joining up in time for the most arduous portion of the journey from Iowa to California. Production of the Liberty Trucks continued into 1920 with a grand total of just over 17,000 built. Well, you would be right. Luckily in the process of adjusting we only broke one spring which was easily replaced to standard. The longer Klaxon-3 model has been noted on some trucks but by far and away the majority have the shorter Klaxonet/E A Labs model 6 style. Another draw back to the truck inherent in both experience and photographic evidence is the lack of any sort of tread or grip on the solid rubber tires. Now if we could just find an original working fuel transfer pump…. We have been carefully studying period photos, as well as photos we have taken of surviving examples such as the truck at the Fort Eustis Transportation Museum and US Marine Corps Museum at Quantico, VA. Market data provided by Factset. I have been hunting for a 1012-B for several months but never found anything close. It was a standardized US Army spec and design for a huge freight hauler. From the center of the truck the lines split allowing either the foot or the handbrake to apply pressure to both wheels at the same time- the foot pedal applies to the forward set of brake shoe toggles, and the hand brake applies to the rear set. One such example appears to be a truck assembled by the Velie Motor Company of Moline, Illinois. To begin with, I should point out the obvious to anyone reading this: the brakes are fully mechanical. Howdy and welcome back! I previously posted back in October about one of two hard-to-find parts that I finally managed to come across for our truck. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. The rear-push short bell ‘Hand Klaxonet’ style is the more common of the two and I managed to find one in (very loud) working condition on eBay a month or so ago for around $250. The Quad was designed by Thomas B. Jeffrey and was built as the Jeffrey Quad beginning in 1913. For many in the world of military vehicles, 1919 is also celebrated for the infamous Motor Transport Corps Trans-continental Convoy (MTC-TCC) also known as the ‘Lincoln Highway Convoy’ named for its route. Present as one of a handful of observers, Ralph B. Burton accompanied the convoy through its duration and recorded many of the mechanical and engineering issues encountered. There were 9,364 manufactured by the end of the conflict on November 11, with roughly 7,500 of them being shipped to Europe to help with the war effort. However, I’ve been unable to confirm this as I haven’t been able to personally inspect an original. America's Liberty B Truck As America's war effort ramped up in 1917, there was a collective realization that the fleet of vehicles needed to support a semi-mechanized army needed some standardization. It is likely then, that this was the source of the trucks encountered in Polish service. This little issue started us on the path of familiarizing ourselves with the brake linkage system on the Liberty and just how it would work. In field testing prior to the war, the U.S. Army pitted trucks against mule trains. Today, we’re going to go a little bit more Liberty truck-adjacent. These are properly designed, so that even though the drive be taken through the springs, there is no grabbing action or moving of the brake pedal and lever.” In contrast, Burton also goes on to strongly disapprove of one of my few issues with the Liberty design; the lateral accelerator pedal. In fact, by all accounts most paved or what we would called ‘improved’ roads essentially disappeared for the convoy west of Iowa. I have also noticed that there appears to be a small screen placed inside the bell on some horns in museums. As hundred of models and makes of trucks and cars began to enter the Army property books, the Quartermaster Corps struggled to keep even basic parts on-hand at the mechanic level. These figures come from Benedict Crowell’s Demobilization; Our Industrial and Military Demobilization After the Armistice, 1918-1920. The new horn has a few small cosmetic nicks and dings, but unlike Jeffrey the bell is original to the body. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. THE ARMISTICE IS SIGNED! The horns on the Fort Eustis’ and the Marine Corps Museum’s Liberty Trucks appear to be original to their respective trucks (Ft.Eustis’ served as our pattern for the repro horn mount in the first place). or redistributed. This mount however would not fit the holes already present in the firewall of our truck which remain from a previous horn mount. His suggestions and general observations were later published in a July 1920 issue of The Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers. I was instantly smitten and continued to monitor the horn, winning it in the final throws of a bidding war after several days. But in all this, we have talked little about the organization of the trucks and just how they fit into the greater AEF in WW1 and beyond, so today we are going to talk about the Army’s brief affair with a specific branch for motorized vehicles- the Motor Transport Corps. I’ll be covering the horn in detail in this post. All along the route bridges would either be impassable, or left useless by the heavy trucks using them, resulting in the engineers having to rebuild over 80 bridges throughout the convoy route. To all of you out there who have served, thank you for your service and happy Veterans day! We’ve talked many times about the history of motorization on this blog. Though not the Army’s first attempt, it was the most thorough in terms of surveying and support, and the first to complete the trip from the east coast to the west. All there is left to do now is remove the mounting points and round-out the reservoir rim, clean it up, paint it and mount it to the truck! So i wonder how radioactive the truck (a Renault) still is. 1 Zeitgeschichtlicher Hintergrund Commanded by Eisenhower, the convoy of 64 vehicles (22 of which were Standard-B Liberty Trucks) covered 3600 miles in 62 days; traversing every type of environment from brick road, to concrete, to mud, and simple wagon/mule trails in the American west. Production of the 3–5 ton truck began in 1917, and the first models appeared ten weeks after the design was standardized. Standard B "Liberty" Series 2, WWI US Army Truck MODEL KIT No 35651 Scale: 1:35 Ask in stores in your area! If we simply plug or cover one of the two nozzles on ours, we should be good to go for functionality purposes or until we find a proper 1012-B to use. Polish Army trucks by this time could very well have included other models of American, French or German vehicles included in the AEF’s surplus sold-off in 1919. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. The chaos of maintaining and supplying motor vehicles was becoming an animal of its own within the Quartermaster’s Motor transport section and demanded its own independent command. In an Army which was by and large horse-drawn, the need for trucks grew tremendously overnight in April 1917 following the US declaration of war. Thanks to them and Midway park we were able to spread the word of WW1 trucks, logistics and this long-forgotten 10,000lb behemoth to the public! Most noticeable for us is the presence of mounting lugs molded into the generator body- these stick out in such a way that they make it impossible to mount on the truck. The price wasn’t fantastic so I kept scrolling past it. Also this Months addition of the magazine Vehicules Militaire has a picture of However, as I would see the truck every day the empty bracket on the firewall mocked me and began to haunt my dreams. It appears to be stamped steel and bent after stamping, making it easy to replicate. Despite looking nearly identical to the Klaxonet “Jeffrey”, these horns are in fact a totally different horn model:  E A Laboratories Model 6 which differs from the Klaxonet in only a few small details. Now, for those of you not familiar with the gas/oil lighting system on second-series Liberty Trucks, check out my earlier post here: Liberty Truck Lighting Systems PART 2: Did We Say Electric? Though the idea of standardized motor transport was in the works demand outstripped delay in standardization, thus the US Government began the desperate grab for any and all trucks it could get to try and support the needs of what would become America’s largest Army to date. The difficulty in adjusting brake shoes to within 1/100th of an inch on a drum that is over 100 years old and slightly out-of-round was not lost on our crew as we eventually settled for best we could get. I have only seen a handful of original photos supporting the use of the Klaxon-3, but it was certainly used. This year we mark the convoy’s 100th anniversary and as such, the Military Vehicle Preservation Association (of which the author is a member) will be traversing the very same route in a 100-vehicle convoy of historic military vehicles beginning August 10th in York, PA and ending 37 days later in Stockton, CA on September 15th. In 2008, the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in Wheaton, IL acquired a 1918 Standardized Class-B Military Truck, better known as a … It appears to also be missing several of its 6 retaining screws which affix the bell to the body. The older 712 model we have was designed to be mounted to a car’s firewall or side using brackets cast directly into its bronze body- a feature which keep it from mounting to the liberty as intended. Even though it’s been out of service for years, the Jeep is still the most iconic American military vehicle, but it may never have existed if it weren’t for the Liberty Truck of World War 1. Designed, tested, and completed for production in late 1917, the Standardized Class-B ‘Liberty Truck’ was one of three classes of standardized … The Liberty truck was much the same as other US military items after WW1 which found its way in limited numbers into the arsenals of foreign armies. In this post, we will touch on the Truck’s service with one country in particular: Poland. I had reached out to several restoration specialists in the field of brass-era gas lighting, but none responded to my inquiries. It was meant to also power two headlamps, while the Liberty only has one search light needing one gas nozzle. While no mechanic wishes to break and replace a part, this is particularly worrisome with our truck as anything on it that is original is near impossible to replace. Today, only a handful remain scattered between the U.S. and Europe, including one that just wrapped up a decade-long restoration by the First Division Museum, which says it is one of just five functional examples left. Liberty truck ist die Bezeichnung eines Lastkraftwagens der US-amerikanischen Streitkräfte im Ersten Weltkrieg. The brake system is a simple mechanical shaft linkage and drum system with adjustable linkage shafts, and shoes. The 712 model has a few small features which differ from the correct 1012-B model. Over several weeks of maintenance meetings with our museum volunteers, it took us about 4 sessions of adjusting and testing the brakes and linkages before we got any noticeable result from the foot pedal. Legal Statement. Our hearts and prayers are with our lonely little horn as we hope he shows up again one day…. After successful trials, it was fast-tracked for production in early 1918. However, the hand brake remains the most useful of the two. Tom over at Firebrand LLC managed to help us clean up a few features on our older Solar model generator to include removing the mounting brackets cast into the body rim, and one of the two feed nozzles to better match the 1012-B model intended for the truck and allow it to mount into the firewall bracket. In 1917 the U.S. Army’s Quartermaster Corps recognized the need for a standardized motor vehicle to replace the mishmash of trucks it was using, which made parts supplies and repairs complicated and inefficient. Our Klaxonet is an original body and mechanism with a reproduction bell. Still waiting on Autozone to restock the Liberty drums…. It retains original Olive Drab paint that matches other examples of surviving paint we have come across, as well as the fact that it has an original Liberty truck mount as well which fit our truck with no modifications whatsoever. I am very excited to announce that I finally located and purchased two of the 3 missing parts for our truck which have kept me awake at night since the truck arrived at the Museum- a Carbide gas generator and Klaxon horn! Having bogged down the truck myself in little more than wet grass, I can only imagine how many times the Class-B trucks and others found themselves slipping and becoming stuck- a fact proven by the many photos of wrecked, flipped or stuck trucks along the route. The 62-day exercise was meant to assess the military’s ability to mobilize over long distances and was observed by then-Lt. Now, I know what many of you brass-era enthusiasts might be thinking: ‘Ian, that’s a motor cycle horn and not a car horn’. The liberty truck was designed by the Motor Transport section of the Quartermaster Corpsin cooperation with the members of the Society of Automotive Engineers. The truck performed fantastically in the frigid temperatures, and the public crowded around to see this wonderful marvel of a by-gone era roar to life. The First Division Museum’s 11-year-long, multiple truck project is finally complete! The Motor Transport Corps provided many valuable lessons on the implementation of motor transport, but would ultimately be a victim of the cut-backs outlined in the National Defense Act of 1920 as the size of the US Army was rapidly reduced The assets, personnel and mission of the MTC would again be absorbed by the Quartermaster Corps as many of the maintenance parks under the MTC’s control were broken down throughout France. Class B Liberty Truck. At the end of the day through trial and error we managed to let out the foot pedal shaft adjustment as far as it would care to go, adjusted the brake clearance nuts and shoe toggles and ended up with a slightly more responsive pedal, which is better than it had been. Fast-forward a few more weeks as I scour eBay for research materials and the usual historical themes. Supply got bad enough at the truck operator level and time tables so tight that it wasn’t uncommon for trucks within a convoy to be cannibalized and left by the road side in favor of recovering the vehicle. Luckily the hand brake worked very well, allowing us to still be able to operate and drive the truck safely around the property in the meantime. Similar also but far easier to discern at a distance is the Klaxon-3: a longer bell but the same body style and push rod of the Klaxonet which NARA photos indicate was built under contract for government trucks at some point during WW1. My self and other museum volunteers brought out the Liberty to show the public and wore original WW1 uniforms to interpret the lives and history of those no longer able to tell their story. One of the largest Great War Reenactments in the region, Rockford was the perfect place destination for our Liberty. However, horse-drawn transportation would outlive the MTC by several years. So many began to pile up in storage yards across France that a September 1919 New York Times article outlined a case of several officers instructing soldiers to purposely dismantle, burn and cut-up trucks stored at a facility in Verneuil, France with the intention of selling the scrap for profit. While we are unsure if these brackets are original, they appear to be so and are also some of the few photos we were able to get close enough to potentially replicate as most original photos are nearly impossible to get a complete walk-around view of. Welcome back to the blog and Happy Halloween! The reproduction bell was actually a large factor in buying is as I felt it was in very nice shape and also helped to reduce the cost slightly from others I had come across. It played a significant role in the life of the Standardized Class-B military ‘Liberty’ truck, its implementation and story in the larger history of Army motorization. If you came by the event on Friday or Saturday you more than likely saw Nancy66 putting around the park throughout the day. Follow @foxnewsautos, decade-long restoration by the First Division Museum. In my desperation and eventual acceptance of the loss of Jeffrey, I began to look for his replacement. The thing is amazing for the time: it has a 5.2-liter straight-four engine making 29 horsepower and driving all four wheels with solid tires. The job of figuring out just how bad they were was motor truck-related, ergo it fell to the newly minted MTC and a young Major Dwight D. Eisenhower. The plastic parts have nice, crisp detail, … This is a lesson we learned very early on with our truck as soon as we began driving it around our park since our foot brake pedal seemed to be completely unresponsive- luckily our hand brake worked very well. Following the end of the Polish-Bolshevik war in late 1921, all trucks were consolidated to the Air forces or support branches which were affiliated with it. It is with a heavy heart that I must report that our Klaxonet push-horn since named ‘Jeffrey’ became a casualty of that chaotic move and is now floating in the eternal ether of missing garage parts, split pins and bolts. Beginning July 7th, 1919 and ending September 6th (a total of 62 days and 3,110 miles traveled), the convoy involved some 64 vehicles (not including trailers) to include 22 Standardized Class B Liberty Trucks of the Second-series type. WW1 アメリカ陸軍 トラック スタンダード B リバティ シリーズ 2 ICM 1/35 ミリタリービークル・フィギュア 7,370円 6,633円 Our truck is a second-series assembled from parts of first and second series trucks alike, so we have taken to calling November 1918 its general time of creation, making this Veteran’s day its 100th birthday. 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