NEW BRITISH UNIT
ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS (British Oflieial Wireless.) RUGBY, September 1. Meclianical warfare needs mechanics in the field, and this need is to be supplied by the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Kngineers, an organisation which will come into being at the beginning of next month. The work of organisation is 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 in the front line back to the great static workshops of the base depot and at home. All repairs will be in the hands of specialised craftsmen, and, as the work was previously done by the Royal Ordnance Corps, about CO per cent of the personnel ami equipment of that corps will be taken over by the new organisation. Skilled tradesmen in the Royal Army Service Corps and Royal Engineers will also be transferred. There will be specialist eoiu'ses for j members of the new corps. !
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Evening Star, Issue 24290, 3 September 1942, Page 6
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180NEW BRITISH UNIT Evening Star, Issue 24290, 3 September 1942, Page 6
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