CMP's in Plain Clothes

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by David_Hayward
The following reference letters had been allotted to workshops and commands [by 1944]:

COMMAND WORKSHOPS, ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS:
EASTERN COMMAND ECO

David,
I can confirm to you that 14 Command Workshops REME at Ashford, Kent, was assigned the code ECO2. Although over the years its name changed to 44 Command Workshops, then 44 District Workshops and finally ABRO Ashford before its closure in 1996, we still marked overhauled assemblies with ECO2. Just recently I was working on some Cadillac engines from a M5A1 Stuart only to find the familiar ECO2 on them.
I had the pleasure of working in the above establishment for 22 years up until its final end.

Richard