The Archive · 1928

An Open-Air College

Outside the school the Tramway] Company has established an open-air college for military engineers. There is a perfect specimen of the modern trench, complete with parapet, parados, fire-step,—bomb-shelter, machine-gun post, Sergeant-Major's deep dug-out, ete.' Not even a Sikh} here: they must all have gone over the top. Within a few yards tramway clock, which gave time as 11.46 am. and it was probably a good half-hour since the Sikh and the Bolshevist had been The investigator had in the back of his mind un idea that, at Home, when people, for the purposes of their own business, tinker with public property, they are allowed the maximum time in which it can be accomplished with first-class labour continuously employed: at the end of that period they, have to show the-public property in as good condition as it was, and for every day over the stated period that the property is not as it should be they have to pay a heavy penalty. Also, he remembered in his youth seeing London County Council's tramway) lines relaid, and, on another occasion, an equally long stretch practically rebuilt through the flanges being cut off tha rails and new flanges bolted on. Armies of workmen swarmed down nas the serices were suspended at night and! {in no time the work was completed.

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