RAOC Gazette - page 78
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1978 |
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| Early date | 1978 |
| Late date | 1978 |
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jfor tfje &etorti VISIT BY IIM THE QUEEN TO THE CORPS AT BICESTER, 16 MAY 1978 AS recently announced, The Queen will visit Her Corps at Bicester on 16th May 1978. We are honoured that on this occasion Her Majesty has consented to spend the whale day with us, and it promises to be a full one. On arrival at 11.30 am, The Queen will be received by the Representative Colonel Commandant. A Royal Guard oi Honour will be mounted, made up of officers and soldiers from throughout UK. After a short briefing by the DGOS, Her Majesty will visit DSM(A) Control Division and the Auto- matic Data Processing Installation and will meet staffs at their work before lunching in the Ambrosden Officers Mess with officers from throughout UK. In the afternoon The Queen will drive through the Am- brosden Married Quarters area to visit the Storage area at Graven Hill, after which Her Majesty will name one of the new locomotives of the Bicester Military Railway before touring through the COD by train. During this journey various aspects of Corps activity, not normally associated with Bicester, will be demonstrated under arrangements of COO UKLF and DLSA. From the train, The Queen will be driven to the Black- thorn Sports Fields for the final part of the programme; an all ranks Garden Party, Attendance at the Garden Party will be open to all serving members of the Corps in UK and their wives, and also to the TAVR and to civilian members of the Army Ordnance Services and their wives. It is intended that the gathering should be representative of the Corps in UK and a letter ask- ing for bids for vacancies has been distributed through com- mand and unit channels. There will also be some vacancies for retired members of the Corps and their wives; applications for these vacancies should be made by 7th April 1978 to: — DGOS Sec 2» Logistic Executive (Army), Portway, Monxton Road, Andover, Hants SP11 8HT. In all cases, in the event of over-subscription, vacancies will be allotted by ballot Notification to those attending will be made by 21st April 1978. Philatelic Commemorative Covers to mark the visit and the two anniversaries it celebrates, are to be issued. Full details will be available in next month's GAZETTE and will also be distributed through command and unit channels. PRESENTATION IN Brigadier Peter Crawley* Director of Ordnance Services BAOR, presenting the clock to Herr Seidel. petroleum trade. He is known and remembered for his reliability and quiet sense of humour and is held in esteem by all who have known him. We wish both Paul and Frau Seidel a happy retirement, CALLING ALL TYPISTS THE Supervising Office of Headquarters 1st British Corps has typewriters to make you envious; no longer any rubbings out, overtypes. Initial work is typed up in the normal way but is not committed to paper and simply appears on a screen. Errors can be corrected by overtyping and when the work is perfect only then is it printed out. It is also stored on a device called a 1 floppy disk' which looks like a forty five record still in its case. Any further amendments to the work are carried out by computer action. The original is recalled to the screen and overtyped to its correct form; new detail can be inserted, old detail erased. The updated version is automatically restored and a copy printed out if required. •tes^--; BAOR A SHORT ceremony was held in the Visitors Mess, Rheindahlen, on 30th December to mark the retirement of Paul Seidel after thirty two years working for the Army. Brigadier Crawley, DOS BAOR, presented Paul with a handsome brass carriage clock made by Matthew Norman of London. Generous contributions were received from several of Paul's previous and present military officers and current civilian colleagues which were used to purchase this most suitable farewell present. It is simply inscribed: Paul Seidel from his RASC and RAOC friends 1946—1977. Paul Seidel was recruited by the British Army as a clerk late in 1945 and employed in the former Luftwaffe petroleum depot at Preussisch Oldendorf. Between 1945 and 1948 the depot was expanded until it was supplying most of the petroleum products required by the British Army in Germany. Paul was, by this time, Chief Clerk of the depot. He then moved to Headquarters BAOR in Bad Oeyenhausen to work in the petroleum branch of the S and T Directorate. In October 1954 Headquarters BAOR moved to its present location in Rheindahlen. Paul moved with it—he was by now part of the petroleum inventory, Paul Seidel has worked for many British Officers during his thirty two years and his name has become a by-word in the no mor tipin misrykes. The team at Bielefeld, shown in the photograph, have worked on the system since March 1977, with the manufacturer, to adjust the machine called DATIC 1000—2 FBD almost to JSP 101 standards and one of the finest achievements is a pro- gramme called " Quickwrite," This programme can accumulate a document of almost any length and when called upon to do so prints it out at about six hundred words a minute without any manual intervention taking care of the following:—Top and tails with security classification; Page numbers auto- matically; Paragraph numbers automatically; Feeds paper auto- matically ; Single, double or variable line spacing; Ten, twelve or variable characters per inch; Mathematical Signs eg., A 2 ; Chemical Formula; Vertical lines and many other options. 302 — |
| Book number | R0246a |