This work focuses on the efforts of the Quartermaster Corps to
apply the concept of standardization to the Army's motor
transportation system. The experiences of the Quartermaster Corps
and the automobile industry indicated that the most efficient and
cost effective method of motorization was to adopt a fleet of
standardized trucks with interchangeable components. To attain this
goal, the Quartermaster Corps faced many obstacles: bureaucratic
inertia, technological limitations, insufficient funding, and
resistance from the truck industry. But, in 1940, as America
prepared for war, thanks to the efforts of the Quartermaster Corps,
the haphazard policies that had once governed truck procurement
were superseded by a standardization policy that purchased
predetermined makes and models of trucks manufactured specifically
for Army service.
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