In "Camel Cars on New Machine is Designed After Months of Spying On Animals' Walk Rome, Sept. 15. The manufacture of an armoured car, built for use in desert warfare and designed to "walk like a camel," was begun by the Fiat Company last week, it was announced in Turin last night.
The announcement was made by the newspaper "La Estama" which said the new armoured car was developed after Italian engineers had studied the walk of a camel for months, The paper said each of the armoured car's four _balloon-tired wheels have independent knee action based on the manner in which camels lift their legs when speeding over soft sand.
Fiat engineers, the announcement said, have discovered that a camel's walk only places four pounds of weight per square inch on each powder puff-shaped camel's hoof—United Press.
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