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Government agency: Bureau of Public Information (P.I.)
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.094666
Inscriptions:
Credit: [star] / P.I. / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORKCaptions: Verso: 9297//35 2nd WWW / Canadian Army / PROVING METTLE OF CANADIAN CARRIER / As part of the demonstration arranged in Windsor by the Ford motor Company of / Canada, Universal Carriers were made to pass through the roughest country in the / district. One of the sturdy carriers is shown in this photograph as it plowed / through a small forest of second growth trees, crushing them under its threads as / it waddled along like a great steel turtle at a speedy clip.Markings:Verso: 9297//35 2nd WWW / Canadian Army / PROVING METTLE OF CANADIAN CARRIER / As part of the demonstration arranged in Windor by the Ford motor Company of / Canada, Universal Carriers were made to pass through the roughest country in the / district. One of the sturdy carriers is shown in this photograph as it plowed / through a small forest of second growth trees, crushing them under its threads as / it waddled along like a great steel turtle at a speedy clip.
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: CANADA / ARMY
Retouching: N