PROVISION AND REPLENISHMENT OF PETROL IN THE FIELD

on returning to their location no time is wasted in getting the vehicles into the parking place allotted to them all vehicles of the part are now full so that it has 25 miles of petrol oil and lubricants for all divisional units and 75 miles for core to we will now leave the sub park where the vehicles are likely to remain until the evening and move forward to study the petrol situation with the units in the division with its serve we find that all have been replenished during the night so that in accordance with the laydown principle the tanks of all vehicles are filled with after day's work unit petrol dollars were loaded to their capacity providing units with an immediate reserve the divisional petrol companies are all full adding 50 miles of petrol oil and lubricants for all units in their division each vehicle is loaded with oil and lubricants in a laid down proportion to the petrol at Cadiz notice the careful camouflaging of this flower full-day movement will take place movement throughout with the enemy in to counter his land movement to ensure for our artists greater rapidity of exilim that are seized by the enemy movement to give the commander that freedom of action implied by the principle of mobility movement which can only be made possible by the use of fretful all day long the movement will go on until in the evening men and machines must come to a halt for a while a whole course partly by the approach of night but more by the necessity for men to feed weapons to receive new supplies of missiles and vehicle more petrol or the receive accordingly by the TRA SC the divisional petrol company for the establishment of petrol point the divisional petrol companies river act in the rear of the divisional area probably 12 to 15 miles from the forward defended locality one or more petrol points may be required the number being largely dependent on the area occupied by the division the guiding principle being that all units must be within reasonable distance of a petrol point the estimate of the amount of petrol to be held at petrol points is based on the amount of movement during the day the message from CR ASE arrives at the headquarters of the divisional petrol company the company commander says for one of his section officers while awaiting his arrival discusses the petrel situation with the divisional petrol officer the section optimal arrived is there in the message and it so to establish the petrol point the section officer returns to the section where he gives instructions to his section sergeant's and subjects and commanders regarding the establishment of natural choice he then goes up to carry out a reconnaissance of the petrol point arranging a rendezvous at which to meet the vehicle in the meantime the company commander in consultation with a divisional petrol officer makes out a demand to the sub part for the amount of petrol he estimates will be required at petrol refilling points taking the time at which he can take delivery of it the message is despatched by one of the motorcyclists attached to the company from the sub talk for this special purpose notice the spot number on the motorcycle the love is detailed for one of the petrol funds have arrived and apart awaiting the arrival of demands from unit one vehicle has already arrived and is taking on board it slow this special point established in one of the forward Brigade areas has good concealment from the air and room to allow ample desert on completion of loading the unit representative gives the receipt to the supplied petrol detail responsible for the issuing of the vessel before returning to his unit a simple traffic circuit has been arranged and vehicles have been parked to allow tailboard loading this could be done whenever possible provide the double labor of uploading to the ground and then loading from the ground to load in the case of a unit requiring petrol in excess of the carrying capacity of its own petrol vehicle hold on who knows maybe ten from the petrol point to the unit here the motorcyclist has arrived with a demand which entails the dispatch of a sweet harmonic containing six hundred and forty gallons of petrol to a unit ilaria caddying this amount has handed over to him he needs it often his unit the NCO in charge of each petrol point is responsible for keeping a petrol safe with the a/v 55s after sharing the issues Mae when all customers have been served in closing time arrived the petrol point packs up and returns to its exit lookie