Original Item: Only One Available. Sgt. George H. Statsick from Caledonia Michigan ASN 3461579 was a member of Repair Unit 307, Motor Transport Corps and served in France during World War One.

This uniform group includes the following items:

- WWI wool army tunic with RARE colorful embroidered Motor Transport Corps insignia, an embroidered MTC winged helmet Sergeant chevron on right sleeve and an MTC winged helmet collar disc. The Interior is named to GHS and G.H. Statsick. Offered in excellent condition.

- WWI wool army Kinckers style pants also named to G.H. Statsick with original tailor label dated 1917. Offered in excellent condition.

- WWI wool overseas cap with rare fantastic winged spoke wheel insignia.

- Two Original wartime photos of Statsick in uniform on motorcycles.  

- Copies of original wartime documents naming George H. Statsick such as his draft card and passenger lists for traveling too and from Europe as a member of the AEF.

The Motor Transport Corps (M.T.C.) was formed out of the Quartermaster Corps on 15 August 1918, by General Order No. 75. Men needed to staff this new corps were recruited from the skilled tradesmen working for automotive manufacturers in the US.

The first director of the M.T.C. was Brigadier General Meriwether Lewis Walker of Lynchburg, Virginia. Walker was chief engineer of the Pancho Villa Expedition in 1916–17. He was later governor of the Panama Canal Zone. The deputy director was Col. Francis Horton Pope of Kansas. The M.T.C. was headquartered in Tours during the duration of World War I.

General Order No. 75 spelled out the functions of the Motor Transport Corps as:
- The technical supervision of all motor vehicles.
- The design, production, procurement, reception, storage, maintenance and replacement of all motor vehicles, and accounting for same.
- The design, production, procurement, storage and supply of Transport Corps garages, parks, depots and repair shops.
- The procurement, organization and technical training of Motor Transport Corps personnel.
- The salvage and evacuation of damaged motor vehicles.
- The homogeneous grouping of motor vehicles.
- The operation, in accordance with instruction from the proper commanding officer as to their employment, of groups of motor vehicles of "First Class".
- The preparation of plans for hauling cargo and personnel over military roads, or roads under military control will be under the control of the Motor Transport Corps.
- The procurement, supply, replacement and preliminary training before assignment to combatant organizations, of personnel for operation of motor vehicles of the "Second Class", will be made by the Motor Transport Corps.


General Order No. 75 also defined a "motor vehicle" as:
- Bicycles
- Motorcycles
- Automobiles
- Trailers and Trucks

Excluded from this definition were:

- Tractors of the caterpillar type, designed primarily for traction purposes
- Tanks

The variety of SSI worn by the Motor Transport Corps (MTC) is evident by this selection of SSI; all of which are comprised of variations of the initials ‘MTC’, as well as a wheel with spokes or the winged helmet of Mercury.