Utility Motors Aid Boy Scouts.
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Two weeks ago we told how an Albion van took the Richmond Troop of Boy Scouts to Fleet. An interesting motor tour of four days by the Pinkneys Green Troop of Boy Scouts was lately arranged through Mr. T. E. Harrison, whose recent articles in this journal on the military use of motors aroused widespread interest. The patriotism of the Chairman of Commercial Cars, Ltd., Mr. H. C. B. Underdown, enabled the Scouts to hire a" Cornmer-Car " motorvan for "a mere bagatelle." On Saturday, the 30th July, the Troop embarked with the necessary camping details, and left for Wrocklesham (where camp fires were lighted and dinner cooked), and thence to Bordon, where tents were pitched in the Territorial camp. Here the Scouts were the recipients of much kindness from Col. '1'. J. Kearns, A.S.C., and other officers. On the Sunday morning, after church parade with the Troops, tents were struck and the motorvan started for
Selsey Bill, where the camp was re-pitched. Se,a bathing and the various features of scoutcraft were practised. During the Monday, trips were made to points of interest; in the evening, a camp fire sing-song was held. On the Tuesday morning camp was struck, and the return journey to Pinkneys Green was commenced, stops being made at Chichester, where the extensive fleet of " Commer Cars" hired by the War Department for Territorial training was viewed, Aldershot, beautiful Farnborough, Farnham (castle visited), and home. This motor tour, with its combination of access to sea and country, and to the long-reaching panorama of troops on manosuvres, will long be remembered in the annals of the Scouts, and we are assured that this interesting experiment is capable of great expansion—especially during the Easter and Whit-week recesses, when many motorvans are idle, but could be made available for such work.