. Railway mechanical engineer . Les Sables dAlone, La Pallice, Rochefort, later ones were based on an average requirement of 50 pounds La Rochelle, Ponnay-Charente, Marans. per day per man. The actual consumption, after the army Gironde River Group.—, Pauillac, Blazefort, St. Jiad become large, was about 40 pounds per man per day. Loubes, American Bassens, French Bassens, St. Sulpice, St. As the number of Americans in France and the amount Pardon, Bayonne. January, 1919 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER 21 Mediterranean Group.—Marseilles, Toulon, Cette. The principal dock project was at Ame
. Railway mechanical engineer . Les Sables dAlone, La Pallice, Rochefort, later ones were based on an average requirement of 50 pounds La Rochelle, Ponnay-Charente, Marans. per day per man. The actual consumption, after the army Gironde River Group.—, Pauillac, Blazefort, St. Jiad become large, was about 40 pounds per man per day. Loubes, American Bassens, French Bassens, St. Sulpice, St. As the number of Americans in France and the amount Pardon, Bayonne. January, 1919 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER 21 Mediterranean Group.—Marseilles, Toulon, Cette. The principal dock project was at American Bassens, nearBordeaux. The docks at this point consist of 10 berths of410 feet each, served by four tracks along the front of thedocks. Electric gantry cranes are used for unloading cargoesfrom ships and placing the supplies on cars. Immediatelyback of the docks are classification yards and is at present a covered storage capacity of 121,984square feet and open storage capacity of 262,170 square Hoisting Locomotive from Ligliter to Siiip The tonnage unloaded at the ports in Novemljer was di-vided among the various classes of supplies as follows: Per cent Supplies Tonnage of total Coal 207,644 Forage 68,154 Foods 177,791 Clothing 9,451 Oil 23,629 Other quartermasters supplies 63,657 Transportation materials 89,721 Motor transportation 50,096 Engineering supplies 75,272 Ordnance 64,195 Medical 10,973 Signal Corps 3,114 .34 Air Service 9,166 Gas Service 2,883 .31 Troop property 993 .11 Red Cross 3,765 .30 Y. M. C. A 2,148 .23 Naval 1,780 .19 Steel billets 54,379 Miscellaneous 3,161 .34 Totals 920,972 Ordnance in the above classification embraces muni-tions of all kinds; and it is a striking fact that ordnance con-stituted less than 7 per cent of the supplies transported. Ofcourse, however, a vast work of transportation was carried onin the United States in handling the fuel
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