Lex Anteinternet: August 29, 1919. Eastgate to Fallon with the Motor Transport Convoy, dark beers in Belgium.

Thursday, August 29, 2019

August 29, 1919. Eastgate to Fallon with the Motor Transport Convoy, dark beers in Belgium.

Motor Transport Co. 554 en route to Santa Cruz, August 29, 1919 to escort the Pacific fleet to San Francisco. Motor Transport Co. 554 was making this trip in California at the same time that the transcontinental Motor Transport Convoy was struggling to get to California.

The Motor Transport Convoy trucked from Eastgate to Fallon, Nevada, in desert conditions, making 66 miles in 9.25 hours.

In Belgium, a Socialist effort at banning the public consumption of alcoholic spirits was passed which ironically spurred the development of heavy Belgium beers and ales by religious communities, giving us Belgian beers as we know them today.

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