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Battery, and is accommodated in suitable buildings, re-appropriated or 
specially constructed for the stores and vehicles. 
When a single shed contains the entire equipment (Peace and Station) 
of a battery, the Station Equipment should be kept separate from the 
Peace Equipment so far as circumstances permit. 
Gun-carriages and ammunition wagons are to be kept packed, com¬ 
plete with all their stores, except cartridges : straps are to be tied up 
in sets, labelled, and locked up in the vehicle to which they belong. 
In order to prevent excessive enterprise on the part of limber- 
gunners in search of a ready means of replacing some missing article 
of the Peace Equipment, it is desirable to have padlocks on the boxes 
of the Station Equipment vehicles, if they are kept in the same shed as 
the Peace Equipment vehicles : it is probable that orders will be issued 
on this subject. 1 2 
The turnover of the ammunition in the Station Equipment will be 
carried out by the Officer Commanding the Battery. As regards other 
stores, when new articles are required to replace unserviceable in the 
Peace Equipment, it should be stated on the requisition if the articles 
can be replaced from Station Equipment. 
Vehicles and ammunition of Station Equipment will be examined 
annually by the Director of Artillery's Inspection Branch at the same 
time as the vehicles and ammunition of the Peace Equipment is carried 
out. 
The entire Station Equipment will be inspected in January and July 
of each year by a Board consisting of the Lieut.-Colonel Commanding 
the Division of Artillery, the Officer Commanding the Battery, and the 
Senior Ordnance Store Officer. 
Whenever a battery is inspected the Station Equipment will also be 
inspected. 
The Battery Station Equipment is to be packed, horsed, and taken 
out once a quarter, to ensure its being kept in serviceable condition. 3 
At a three Battery Station, or where a Lieut.-Colonel's Division is 
complete, this can be done by lending horses from one battery to 
another, with their drivers : in other cases, one section at a time can 
be taken out. 3 It may be observed in this connection that the largely 
increased charge now placed under the Battery Commander, by the 
addition of the Station Equipment, has not been accompanied by any 
increase in the establishment of N.-C.O.'s and men; this renders the 
work somewhat difficult to cope with, especially in the case of 4-gun 
batteries. 
In the exceptional cases, where the Battery Station Equipment is on 
charge of the Ordnance Store Department, “the Senior Ordnance 
Store Officer will be responsible at all times for the completeness and 
fitness for service of the Battery Station Equipment: the Officer Com¬ 
manding the battery will always have power to inspect his Battery 
1 This question has since been decided on Horse Guards, W.O. letter 54 | Artillery | 1843 | 
dated 30/3/94, as follows :—“ It would appear that the necessary security of the small stores in 
the Station Equipment Carriages would be obtained, if these carriages are inspected as are those 
of the Peace Equipment.” 
2 Equipment Eegulations, Part II., Peace, Section XI., para. 17. 
3 It should not be used on any other occasion without special authority from the Adjutant- 
General. G.O. 1,8.93, 
