CAMERAS FOR E.P.S.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1941, Page 5

CAMERAS FOR E.P.S.

MINIATURE TYPES NEEDED

The information unit of the Welling, ton E.P.S. carries the responsibility of preparing detailed information for the use of the controllers at headquarters of all cases of serious damage caused by enemy action or other means; said the Mayor, Mr. Hislop,, yesterday. As controllers will not be able to leave their posts while the emergency lasts, they must have exact information put before them, and one of the means of providing accurate facts of the situation is the use of photography

The photographic section consists of keen and capable men, but there is a shortage of a particular type of camera —that which uses 35-millimetre film and which is particularly useful for the work. Owing to the difficulty of obtaining supplies of films during the war there must be many citizens who have this type of camera and are not able to make much use of them, said Mr. Hislop. Should any such persons feel disposed to lend cameras of the type mentioned for the duration of the war he would be glad to receive particulars and endeavour to arrange for the E.P.S. officials to take custody of the carfteras during the war period

It seems that the Taranto victory was good news twice over for Lancashire, for immediately it became known Manchester cotton cloth merchants were overwhelmed with orders from Egypt, Turkey, and the Near Eastern [markets.