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6th January 1940, Page 37
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

.YOUR article eulogizing the R.A.S.C., which I presume you published at the request of the War Offi&, coupled with Sir Malcolm Campbell's broadcast appeal for drivers, would certainly lead one to believe there is a demand for skilled men, but my experience is to the contrary.

Apparently the best way to get into the R.A.S.C. is to know very little about commercial vehicles. Anyway, judge for yourselves:—In September, 1938, in a fit of patriotism, I enrolled in the Army Officers' Emergency Reserve. Having had some 20 years' experience, including serving a proper apprenticeship, with one of the largest commercial-vehicle manufacturers, and, as you say in your article, having got road transport in my blood, I was naturally surprised when I was allocated to the infantry.

As I think I can rightly class myself as a specialist, I thought, like you, that in other fields my qualifications A27 would be wasted, especially as the R.A.S.C. uses some hundreds of the vehicles my company manufactures and the infantry has none.

My requests for a transfer were oi no avail, nor were any of the strings I was able to pull through the influence of my directors, so I had to sit back and watch friends of mine who hardly knew an axle shaft from a pivot pin being granted commissions in the R.A.S.C. and drafted to units.

I have been before an Interview Board and explained my qualifications, but it seems that having been allocated to the infantry there I have to stay and remain at home doing nothing.

One would presume that if the R.A.S.C. is expanding to many times its peace-time strength it would want a few officers who know the job, but my patriotism is waning now and I intend to resign from the whole thing

and let them run the war without me! FED UP. Chislehurst.

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