NEW ARMY ORGANISATION
MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR WORK (Rec. 10.45 a.m.) Rugby, Sept. 1. Mechanical warfare needs mechanics in the field and this need is to be supplied by Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers which will come into being at the beginning of next month. The work of organisation is now well advanced. The function of the corps will be the maintenance and repair of every item of army equipment from heavy tanks to complicated predictors and binoculars and even mess equipment. Work will be done in brigade workshops in the front line at base depots 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 60 per cent of personnel and equipment of that corps will be taken over by the new organisation and skilled tradesmen in the Royal Army’s Service Corps and Royal Engineers will also be transferred. Specialist courses for members of the new corps, a correspondent who has witnessed the training states, will make the new branch comparable to the Royal Army Medical Corps with the difference that they will give treatment to machines used by men who come under the care of medical men.—B.O W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 2 September 1942, Page 2
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