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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17394, 3 February 1917, Page 13

Bath caravans are a new feature in war supply. It is reckoned that the bath caravans will supply baths continuously for perhaps fourteen hours without cessation, and may be able to deal with some 1600 men in that time. Each van carries twelve light steel baths, nested onct inside the other, and on tho sides of the van aro waterproof sheetings for forming tents, with the aid of light spars and poles. The water will he heated bv petroleum, and tho caravans will be "drawn by horses from place to place wherever water can be obtained from rivers and streams. It wifl be possible to take them quite near to the'trenches*