007 - 264 - page 1 of an article with two picrutes describing the work and development of COD Bicetser.
page 1 of an article with two picrutes describing the work and development of COD Bicetser.
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| File | 264 |
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| File key | 7264 |
| File MB 600 | 4.6 |
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| File resolution 600 | 300 |
| File size | 26 x 38 |
| Folder | 7 |
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| ID | 659 |
| Object ID | RAO/56/46/1 |
| Object name | newspaper article |
| Other number | p 1 |
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| Status | In Store |
| Status by | AJA |
| Updated | 2nd September 2015 |
| Updated by | AJA |
| X date | 1992 |
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| Early date | 1992 |
| Late date | 1992 |
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GEN X Internatio Mr Steve Bawn on the Pot of Gold carousel Inside one of the Depot's vast store sheds ARKE SURE YOU LEAOM THE LASEL HEY ARE FOR YOUR PROTECTIO *** HAZARD CLASSE A Gases www * Toxic Substance Infectious Substances 3:22 225 Flammable Liquid Flammable Solid Spontaneously Combustible Dangerous When Wet Organic Peroxid Corrosives & Dangerous Dangerous Miscellaneous X Chemicals In Limited Quantities Boddes Do RAO / 56 / 46 / 1 A320 -ing Agent Mr Charlie Scott with a display of hazardous stores very day , seven E days a week , about 500 tons of sup plies leave Bicester Cen tral Ordnance Depot for Army units virtually worldwide . While the Depot princi pally supplies the British Army , many of its stores go to the RAF and Royal Navy , plus some other government organisations . And when we read and hear about Government aid to some disaster - stricken quar ter of the globe , many of the stores that go out tents , for example are sent from Bi cester COD . Stores travel along a conveyor belt in C Site Collis An Army to keep troops supplied A 334T After last week's look back to the early days of Bicester Central Ordnance Depot / Garrison , this week PETER BARRINGTON focuses on today's operations as the Depot celebrates its 50th anniversary - As Brigadier Kevin Goad , commandant of the Depot and commander of Bicester Garri son , explained , the Depot also sends out supplies for United Nations operations ; including supporting for British Army field ambulances working for the UN in Yugoslavia . The Depot today is in many respects quite different from what it was when it was built in 1942 for the invasion of Europe that became the Normandy landings . Surpris ingly , it is even smaller . Over the years surplus land has been sold , most re cently to make way for the new Bullingdon Prison at Arncott . Yet even today , the Depot is vast . - an area It covers about 12 square miles or as Col. Mike Frazer , chief planning officer , put it , the Graven Hill part of the Depot covers roughly equivalent to Re gent's Park and the Arncott end would stretch from Ken nington to Knightsbridge in London . By coincidence , he said , if the Depot was laid out over central London in this way the Officer's Mess at Am brosden would be in Soho . COP 1 93 n 2013 Statistics of the Depot are seemingly endless . There are 38 major ware houses storing £ 259 million worth of supplies . There are 70,000 different types of items , or item headings . Of the supplies carried , 60 % are classified as general stores , 20 % clothing and 20 % motor transport items such as vehicle spares . The internal roads cover about 55 km and the internal railway about 66km or around 40 miles . The railway the largest private railway in Britain has five locomotives and 250 rail wagons , while 14 articu lated lorry tractor units and 96 trailers move supplies around on the road system . The Depot / Garrison em ploys about 1,600 civilians and there are about 900 military personnel of all ranks . Overall the Depot is divid ed into three sub depots cov ering two sites each from A to G. No 1 Sub Depot at B and C sites includes engines and major assemblies and also the fairly new £ 4.25 mil lion hazardous chemicals warehouse , one of the most modern of its kind in Europe , which became operational in 1989 . - Because many of the chemicals are classified as highly flammable they are carefully segregated and stored . They include every day items like firelighters , household aerosols and insec ticides as well as chlorine and methane gas . As elsewhere in the Depot , everyone here is conscious of fire risks no one wants a repeat of the two fires at Bi cester's sister depot at Don nington , Shropshire . As the warehouse handles potentially volatile products , it was built with special fire fighting extras . - These include foam gener ator ports so that fire crews Me com the Defence Fire Service or Oxfordshire Fire Service can inject or pump a special kind of high expansion foam into the entire building with in about seven minutes . In other words it suffocates the flames as a fire cannot burn without oxygen . The foam would extinguish a fire pretty quickly , yet it disintegrates , leaving the un damaged stores in their origi nal state . No 2 Sub Depot at sites D and E includes clothing , foot wear , ceremonial uniforms and tyres ; while No 3 Sub De pot at sites A and G includes the depot support services in cluding workshops , transport unit , traffic branch and the returned stores group . Bicester COD supplies vir tually everything the Army needs , except vehicles and ammunition . These include nuts and bolts , babywear , Arctic combat clothing , tropi cal clothing , boots , shoes , ve hicle spare parts and tools . It supplies to all the Army depots or units in the south ern half of Britain below a line drawn roughly from The Wash to the Severn . North of that line stores go from Bicester to Donnington for distribution northwards . The Depot budget for gen eral stores for 1992-93 is £ 41 million and for clothing and equipment £ 83 million . In a year the Depot pro cesses about 1.4 million is sues or orders and these go to not only to the three main armed Services but also to the Royal Marines , Territorial Army and cadet forces . All the sand - coloured paint that was needed to camou flage vehicles in The Gulf War came via the Depot . In broad terms the Depot's supplies go out under two cat egories : routine and priority . Most places are served |
