§ COLONEL McCALMONT (Antrim, E.)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether sanction will be given by the War Office to trials, free of all cost, of the Ivel motor, shielded with Cammell's bullet-proof steel for protecting medical officers and men giving first aid, affording electric light without glass to field hospital camps, and also working a new portable ice-making machine, for testing and report in the field, under the direction of the medical department at Aldershot.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold Forster.) The Ivel motor ambulances with bullet-proof armour, electric light apparatus, and gear for portable ice machine has been under consideration and has been declined as unsuited to service requirements. Further trials are not therefore contemplated.