Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ehicles, and, in addition,the officer commanding, Major T. R. P. Warren,with the assistance of the Royal Engineers,erected with unskilled labour alone long lengthsof sheds with corrugated iron roofiiig, supportedby steel columns embedded in concrete. Astable was transformed into a workshop forcarrying out the running repairs on the motorlorries required for what may be called domesticpurposes, and the electric power for driving thetools in it was obtained by coupling to a dynamothe engine formerly employed for pumpingwater upon the course. For the amusementand recreation of the men in their leisurehotus there were reading and billiard rooms,as well as facilities for cricket, football, lawntennis and boating, and a very creditableillustrated magazine dealing with the corporatelife of the place was published monthly. Apart from caterpillars and tanks, allthe motor vehicles of whatever class used bythe British Forces passed through this depot,and on occasion it contained as many as 3,000
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