Mobile Kitchens for Emergency Feeding
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Canadian gifts of Fordson vehicles combine utility with art. Soup boilers and an oven are included in the equipment and an awning and side curtains enable service to be given in the black-out.
VWO of the most picturesque mobile kitchens so far put into service in Great Britain have recently been presented to the " Save the Children Fund" of London by the Kiwanis Club of Vancouver, British Columbia. The vehicles are at present staffed by the W.V.A. and, for the duration of the war, will be employed on emergency feeding services for children in andaround London. After the. war, it is intended that they shall be used solely by the " Save the Children Fund " on relief work in the East End of London.
These mobile kitchens consist of Fordson Thames 2-3-ton chassis, with specially designed bodies built by Messrs. Eastern Body Works to the order of W. J. Reynolds (Motors), Ltd., of Dagenham. The kitchens ire fitted with spacious food and equipment cupboards and the cooking facilities include two soup boilers and an oven.
It is the exteriors of the kitchens, however, that make these vehicles unusually striking. Both sides of each vehicle have been neatly painted, with typical Canadian scenes by eminent children's artists. Miss Celia Bedford has been responsible for the decoration of one van, which shows facets of life hi the forests and river's of the Rockies, whilst Miss Marjorie Croft has linked Canadian animal life with fairy stories on the two sides of the other kitchen.
Both these Fordson mobile kitchens are equipped with side awnings and canvas walls, which permit them to be used dtiring black-outs.