EQUIPMENT FOR ARMY

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 288, 3 September 1942, Page 5

EQUIPMENT FOR ARMY

New Repair Organization

(British Official Wireless.) HUGBY, September 1.

Mechanical warfare needs mechanics in the field and this need is to be supplied by the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, which will come into being at the beginning of next month, the work of organization being now well advanced.

The function of the corps will be the maintenance and repair of every item of army equipment from heavy tanks and complicated predictors to binoculars and even mess equipment. The work will be done in brigade workshops iu the front line, back to the great static workshops of the base depots and at home. All repairs will be in the hands of specialized craftsmen, and as the work was previously done by the Royal Ordnance Corps, about 60 per cent, of the personnel and' equipment of that corps will be taken over by the new organization. Skilled tradesmen in the Royal Army Service Corps and the Royal Engineer's will also be transferred.

Specialist courses for members of the new corps, a correspondent who lias seen the training states, will make tile now branch comparable to the Royal Army Medical Corps, with the difference that they will give treatment to the machines used by the men who come under the care of the medical men.