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Recovery in The Field - 1944

WO K.A. [Sandy] Tocock,mid - Recovery
Sandy Tocock
Sandy Tocock

When I transferred to RAEME from the British Army in the early 1950s, I had with me a special issue of the British Machine Tool Engineering, Jan-Feb-Mar 1944. Its 114 pages were devoted to the then new Corps of REME, its organization, operation and techniques. The foreword was written by the first Director of REME, Major General E.B. Rowcroft; available on this link

The section on Recovery in the Field covered Pages 7 to 17. They have been reproduced as web pages and may be viewed in the links below.

For those who are interested in or involved in the technical aspects of recovery, these pages will be very valuable. Throughout a long career, including as commander of an Armoured Recovery Vehicle on Operations, and later as a training specialist, these pages were a constant reference

British Machine Tool Engineering ... Jan-Feb-Mar 1944
 
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Recovery in the Western Desert

Scammel Transporter loading General grant tank
Fig42 .. With R.E.M.E. in the Western Desert. A damaged tank is hauled on to the Scammell transporter.
General Grant tank about to mount Scammel Transporter
Fig43 .. A damaged General Grant in Tripolitania about to be winched on to the transporter.
General Grant tank loaded on Scammel Tranporter General Grant tank loaded on Scammel Tranporter
Figs44 and 45 .. In the forward areas of Tripolitania ; two impressive views of the General Grant with the Scammell tank transporter's ramps raised for moving off.

For further recovery photographs we take our readers to R.E.M.E. operations in the Western Desert where our first examples give good close-up views of Scammell tank transporters in service.

Fig42 for example has just caught the action of loading a damaged Matilda tank on to the transporter whilst Figs 43, 44, and 45, show three stages of loading a General Grant tank, in the forward area in Tripolitania; the third illustration providing an impressive view of the loading ramps in the raised position preparatory to moving off.

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