Item 06: Letters sent by Robert Christian Wilson to his family, 1918-April 1919 - Page 130
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some armoured cars and the regt coming out to our rescue, but they were not needed. We only had five chaps slightly wounded so got off pretty light I think.
When you get to the top of the mountains east of the Dead Sea you come on to a big table land of rich red soil, and there seems to be a lot of wheat grown up there - the few crops we saw looked splendid. It was quite cold up there and the season is easily a month or six weeks behind this valley, which is getting hotter every day.
I was looking at the armoured car section today - all their big fighting cars are Rolls Royces, but all their transport and ammunition cars etc are Fords. I tell the chaps here that is shows that the only car fit to work with the Rolls Royse is the Ford!
I wonder if the Americans will bring out a Ford aeroplane. The Rolls Royce have some beauties and are now bringing out a whopper, I believe, with four, two hundred and fifty horsepower engines in her.