FLYING SQUADS
RAPID CAMP CONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN. Ten flying squads of builders are now being rushed round Britain doing emergency construction work in record time. Each squad has 60 men who travel about the* country in motor caravans specially designed for them, with bunks and kitchens. Five-ton lorries carrying materials and plant complete the cavalcade. When a town is blitzed overnight, one or more flying squads are on the spot next morning in their mobile homes which have everything the men need to keep them going until the job is done. They therefore make no tiemands at all upon the blitzed population for billeting, food, tools or materThe new squads take on urgent Seivice work anywhere, arriving in an empty countryside, quite indifferent to the absence of huts, beds, or canteens. Their first job was a site construction for an Army camp in a remo Le part of Britain. Normally there is a delay of three weeks between inviting tenders for new camps and beginning the work upon them. Coming along during this interval the mobile builders in 16 days ran up huts foi the advance parly of the main contractoio and put down their roads in the lougii.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 4
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199FLYING SQUADS Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 4
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