Church Army Mobile Canteens Do Good Work
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ONE of the many sections of the Church Army's work, which is little known to the general public, is that in connection with the mobile canteens that are run for the benefit of the Forces. There are hundreds of these canteens stationed in many parts of the British Isles, and they are employed in visiting isolated posts where small parties of troops, etc., are located, so as to serve them with refreshments and Light meals.
Another section of the mobile canteen department of the Church Army deals with the civilian side, and its work is
concerned with visiting large air-raid shelters every night and during air raids. Some of these liehicles have had arduous work to perform and a number of them has been working in open country with little chance of receiving ordinary maintenance service.
Of late, American friends have been rending over canteens already equipped, and they are now going into service. Some of them are standard. Chevrolet commercial vans of the type to be seen in one of the accompanying pictures. The mobile canteens are based on 80-cwt. and 2-ton chassis. Certain oi the vehicles which have recently arrived are shown in an illustration on this page, in which Capt. A. Stroud, M.B.E„ who is in charge of this section of the Church Army, and Mr. George Adams, M.I.M.T., A.Inst.A.A., are to be seen. Mr. Adams has been associated with General Motors. products in this country, particularly the Chevrolet, for many years, and his firm, Messrs. Geo. Adams, 28-30, Rochester Mews, Camden Town, London, N.W.1, are engaged in preparing these gifts from America for service in this country.