It comprises a 2-wheel reel cart used for the rapid laying and recovering of telephone and telegraph lines in the field.
It is completely equipped with a reel, mechanically rotated and controlled, 1 chest with wire-laying equipment, a driver's seat, and appropriate parts and fittings specially designed and used for only on this cart; designed to carry 5 miles of wire, type W-39.
It was formerly known as "Wire reel cart, type N".
[1] A rare sample of the Wire reel cart, type N can be found in the Signal Corps Museum at Fort Eisenhower, Georgia.
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