§ 40. Brigadier-General CLIFTON BROWNasked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether the Royal Air Force armoured car detachments in Palestine are equipped and maintained from Army ordnance stores, or whether their spare parts, equipment, etc., are provided by the Royal Air Force depots?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for AIR (Sir Philip Sassoon)These detachments are equipped and maintained from Royal Air Force depots, which, in the ordinary course, necessarily handle and hold large stocks of spares for motor transport vehicles, internal combustion engines and machine guns and similar items.
Brigadier-General BROWNIn the interests of economy, would it not be better to have co-ordination between the two ordnance depots of the two Services?
§ Sir P. SASSOONIn the case of Iraq there is no Army ordnance depot at all..