ENGINEERS AT BURNHAM

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28866, 10 April 1959, Page 8

ENGINEERS AT BURNHAM

Development Of Facilities

A major reorganisation and improvement of accommodation and engineering facilities and equipment are under way at Burnham Military Camp. The work involves the removal of the Corps of Electrical and Mechancial Engineers from four localities providing sub-standard accommodation to a newlydeveloped centre. The corps will be provided with a headquarters which it has not had before. In addition there will be a luncheon and social room and showers and toilet facilities. An 80ft by 40ft wooden building has already been transported from the coastal defence area at Godley Head and put in place for use as a general store.

The Ministry of Works will construct two new buildings for use as motor repair bays. The buildings will have steel portal frames and be put up in concrete block. Each will have 400 sq. ft. of floor space.

Heavy cranes for big jobs will go in one building, and the other will be used for light work. The separation into light and heavy jobs is a departure from engineering practice at Burnham. Ancillary services will be car washing, battery charging, and timber and steel racks.

Repairs Bay

The present motor transport repairs bay is being redesigned to take part of the corps armaments ; and general section. Instrument and telecommunications engineering will be housed in air-conditioned rooms. With them will be the optical test room. This will provide clear vision for ; at least half a mile in two direc- • tions. The existing tank shop will be used for the small arms and machine gun section and part of i the armaments section that will not be accommodated in the redesigned motor transno’- 8 repairs : bay. Army engineering work has also been under way at Addington • Military Barracks in Poulsen street, with the extension of the motor transport repairs shop there. An open-fronted building which has been inadequate in depth for the Army’s work has been deep--1 ened and fitted with steel rollershutter doors. An innovation is an air-conditioned spray paint booth now being built of steel and concrete at one end of the shop.