MOTOR POOL • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Motor pool

... will be conserved. The personnel people will sometimes scuttle a fine natural leader of a tactical platoon, simply because they have discovered that in civilian life he ran a garage and there is a vacancy for a motor pool operator, or switch a gunner who is zealous for his new work back to a place in the rear, because the record book says that he is an erstwhile, though reluctant, keeper of books. From their point of view, this makes sense. But they are not always aware of how difficult and essential it is to ...

— The Armed Forces Officer - Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 • U. S. Department of Defense