RAOC Gazette - page 115
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
| Late date | 1977 |
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Vis Tina Maedonaid will confirm. Mike Bowen is happy in his >cni job so he prudently saw to it that the eggs were ; On the sporting front the tennis players art limbering up I , the Base Organisation tournament and have played several names with local teams. Our cricketers have won through to [he semi-finals of the EDIST Cricket Competition, but we do not know yet who our opponents are to be. Central Ordnance Depot Donnington 1 AST MONTH we promised further information on a thirty year old pledge and some information on what not to do as a n'liy driver in the Army, The latter has proved successful ^ nigh to be relegated to a separate article; the former has p.Lwed more difficult to deal with and we include a progress report later in this letter. Meanwhile, the Jubilee has come and gone, notable in Donnington more for watching than creating spectacles. In this Jubilee year however we are carrying out, with a lot of help from its friends, a complete refurbishing of the Little Theatre. For those who have not served in Donnington the Little Theatre is the spiritual if not proprietorial home of the Donnington Garrison Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Society which fills such a large portion of the cultural activity of the Depot. As - . « result of an agreement reached with Telford Development Corporation and the Local Authority it has been possible to extend the life of the theatre and make possible and worth- while a complete face-lift. We hope to include a full article next month on this but preparations are going ahead for a grand re-opening on Tuesday 28th June at which the presenta- tion will be "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum." to be produced by Colonel Ray Thornton. The photograph is not a new form of torture devised for the Fit to Fight programme by our Commandant nor the pro- duct of the mental ravings of the Chief Planning Officer. It VHOWS a part of the new look in storage in COD Donnington. Rapidly nearing completion is the new high rise, narrow aisle on nine levels and provide eighty picking faces served by twelve fork-lift turret trucks. The aisles will extend the full 192 metres length of the storehouse and be capable of handling a peak load LOGO standard pallets a day. Coincidentally the contract was won by Link 51, a storage group which has relatively recently established a new factory in Telford New Town, It is traditional that the Travcrs Clarke results will be published separately but we wish in our own notes to con- gratulate Private Stephen Wagstaff who. to the amazement of all including himself, won the pole vault and Corporal Phil Eila who, despite a broken jaw, only narrowly failed to retain the long jump cup that he won last year. We would also wish to congratulate Corporal Clarke in the hammer and WOl Macponald who won us points, and to all others who gained selection for the team. We felt that the revised format of the Meeting, designed to give us an equal chance with the major units, was not an unqualified success since it restricted the num- ber of people who could take part and denied WagstafT, for example, the chance of adding to our points tally. On balance we preferred the layout of last year, The CAO has become very history conscious over the past six months and perhaps one day all will be revealed. The pledge referred to at the beginning of this letter concerns an extract discovered in the History of the Shropshire Yeomanry which suggested that the altar furniture in the Garrison Church was given by the Yeomanry..having been made by them and their attached REME Workshops in Italy at the end of the war. The History suggested that an undertaking had been given that a suitable plaque would be erected in the church in due course. This has so far not been done but further investigations suggest that there are rival claimants to the manufacture of the altar and the altar rails, the lectern and the pulpit. Perhaps anyone read- ing these notes who has knowledge of where these items came from to the Donnington Church would be good enough to write to the CAO at Donnington so that the mystery can be cleared up. Among the minor notes this month we must congratulate apidly nearing completion is the new high rise, narrow aisle, pallet racking installation at Donnington. poltless Systems pallet racking installation in Building B6. This 5 part of the rationalization and modernization programme ^ J extends the existing system to consolidate the storage i acuities of two of our largest buildings under one roof. When complete it will cover a total area of 35,000 square metres. Over nine metres high, it will provide 73,000 pallet locations Photo Corporal M. P. Couzens Private Josie Burden winner of the WRAC Individual High Jump Championship at Alders hot. |
| Book number | R0246 |