A DAPS OUTING

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 90, 12 October 1929, Page 26

A DAPS OUTING

TOUR OP JU2TLEFIELDS

What can be accomplished in a single fay by modern transport, even without feeourse to "wings," is well exemplified m a tour which took place on the jbeeasion of the annual outing this year jof the employees of one of England's (biggest commercial vehicle producing gompanies. Nearly 3000 men from the four works travelled by six special

trains to Dover. Three special boats took the motors employees' annual outing this "year. Nearly 3000 menfrom the factories at Leyland, Farington, Chorley, and Kingston-on-Thanies left for Qstend,' where twenty hotels were ready to receive them for breakfast. The day was spent in visting the battlefields, the majority of the contingent setting off by some eighty ehars-a-bancs via Nieuport, Dismude, Ypres, and "Hill 60." A moving ceremony was witnessed when tribute was paid at the Menin Gate to the British dead who fell in the Salient. Led by one of the directors of the company and the general manager, a largo procession moved down to the Menin Gate, where a wreath, composed of red roses, was laid on this famous shrine. Two Belgian soldiers and one English bugler now living in' Belgium, sounded the Last Post. Eeturning to Ostend the tourists assembled in the Place d'Armes, where a civic reception awaited them at 6 o'clock. After the reception,'the visitors had the rest of the time to themselves, until they sailed for home in the early morning tired but very happy.