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The K-8 cart is a 2-wheel horse drawn cart, designed for transporting in the field a large assortment of signaling equipment in the field; the cart's gauge is 5 ft 2 in; the wheel rims 2½ in wide and the wheel diameters are 5 ft; the body of the cart consists of a large chest surmounted by a driver's seat; the chest is 44 in wide by 27 ft high[citation needed] by 5 ft 4 in long and is mounted upon commercial wagon springs; the interior is equipped with partitions suitable arranged for separating and holding rigidly in place the parts of equipment, type SE-6.[1][2]

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  1. ^ http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015062770162;view=1up;seq=9 Storage catalogue. Signal Corps, Government Printing Office, 1920, Washington
  2. ^ https://archive.org/details/electricalinstr00corpgoog Electrical instruments and telephones of the US Signal Corps (1911)