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Hi T Head...thanks for sharing...It is curious thought as to how the driver kept so clean with the flying mud from the tracks...they had yet to discover that the tracked Ford units could also have fenders. "high-ranking army officers" might be an understatement for this gathering...the couple at far left look like a very young Lt (at the time?) and Mrs. George S. Patton who were (yes both since she was a military daughter and supported her husband in his ideas about the use of Armor in the field and formation of what would become the Armored Division), then the next figure looks like General John Pershing hisself...and if those two are there, then Young Lieutenant George C. Marshall, Pershing's personal assistant, is most likely behind one of the other faces or figures. The fellow in the Black Stetson looks like Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War.
Finally, the bridge in the background appears to be the Connecticut Avenue Bridge over Rock Creek in NW DC. which at that time would have been a great proving ground site...I believe it is or might have been a stock pile place for building parts left over from Interior projects...