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	The Tiger Tank Restoration project - "Our Tiger" Journal.
		ABRO repairs Challenger tanks for the British Army so a Tiger would not prove a problem but it did create a lot of interest.
		ABRO decided that they would begin work on the turret first so it was removed from the Tank Museum in May 1999.
		Work begins at ABRO; here Dave Marsh supervises as the 88mm gun is removed from the turret.
	www.tiger-tank.com /secure/journal15.htm (270 words)

	ABRO
		Its core workload is based on annual programmes developed by the army’s individual equipment managers for re-manufacture or in-depth repair of the inventory.
		The ability to respond to urgent operational requirements is becoming increasingly important and ABRO’s multi-skilled workforce have the capabilities to switch seamlessly from one job to another, as specialised departments within the organisation's repair facilities undertake operationally urgent work.
		ABRO is also able to undertake work on an on-demand basis extending from while-you-wait minor repairs to vehicles, small arms and electronic equipment to major unplanned repairs that cannot be undertaken at the first or second line.
	www.army.mod.uk /catterick_garrison/about_us/catterick_garrison_units/abro.htm (356 words)

	Cncmaps : Judds : Generals Zero Hour maps : Tiberium Wars
		Supply piles for each base as default, after which it is down to you General to find the oil derriks and secure them to obtain a steady flow of cash into you balance.
		Although it seems an open plan base setting the bases are both cloaked with mountain ranges, with villages dotted about the landscape they provide an ideal stronghold for your armies to garrison and use as a perimeter base defense.
		It is comprised of 2 bases one on the left and the one to the right, full of lots of treasures to be discovered, amongst the goodies you will find the usual Oil Derek’s, and a hovercraft, on each base site, along with 2 supply piles one of which is a supply warehouse.
	cncmaps.com /juddsmaps.html (1938 words)

	R.E.M.E
		Responsibility for the maintenance and repair of the varied new equipments was at first accepted, rather naturally, by the arms and services that used them most, and a number of separate repair organisations began to grow up side by side.
		The re-organised recovery and repair system was thoroughly tested during the remainder of the war, during which REME grew to be the largest technical corps, extending its activities to include the manufacture of spare parts and special equipments on a large scale.
		The Army Air Corps was formed in 1958 and it became the task of REME to provide the field repair support for all aircraft used.
	www.26thregra-asc.com /reme.htm (2298 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Army Base Repair Organisation (ABRO) is an executive agency which reports to the United Kingdoms Ministry of Defence.
		The Defence Aviation Repair Agency, better known as DARA, is an executive agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, responsible for the maintenance and repair of Royal Air Force and the Royal Navys aircraft.
		The Defence Logistics Organisation is an agency of the United Kingdom MoD charged with managing the storage and supply chain assets of the Ministry and the British Armed Forces.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ministry-of-Defence-%28United-Kingdom%29 (4592 words)

	Indian Army : Strength
		The Indian Army gives due respect to its adversaries and finds no need to cozen itself with whistling in the dark about 'One of US is equal to ten of them.
		Territorial Army personnel can handle docks and ports, railways, inland waterways, engineering, and keep things functional till their civilian counterparts are able to resume duty.
		When a 50-tonne tank trundles past a saluting base, having replaced a 40-tonne tank, the general populace are appreciative of this new war machine not realizing that, probably, the logistic support to it has gone up 2.5 times.
	indianarmy.nic.in /arstren1.htm (3397 words)

	UK National Audit Office press notice - Ministry of Defence: Major Repair and Overhaul of Land Equipment
		The Ministry of Defence has done much to improve the management of the major repair and overhaul of land equipment but there is more to do, including addressing the future role and shape of its in-house provider, the Army Base Repair Organisation (ABRO), Sir John Bourn, Head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today.
		For example, repair loop times are very long - it takes over 180 days on average from the time an item is sent from a unit for repair to the time it is repaired and returned to the depot.
		A mixture of private sector providers and in-house agencies, principally the Army Base Repair Organisation, conduct the repairs on the Department’s behalf.The Department established ABRO as a Trading Fund on 1 April 2002.
	www.nao.org.uk /pn/01-02/0102757.htm (844 words)

	ABRO - Success stories - Apprenticeships for Major Employers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Army Base Repair Organisation (ABRO) is an engineering company that offers repair and manufacturing services worldwide.
		ABRO find recruiting young people with the right skills is becoming increasingly difficult.
		ABRO refurbishes equipment – from battle tanks to binoculars – so their staff need to have a wide variety of specialist skills.
	www.apprenticeships.org.uk /employers/employerover1000/successstories/ABRO.htm (155 words)

	Armed Forces officer, technical: Case studies
		They were responsible for the recovery and repair of Army transport and armoured vehicles from anywhere across Southern England and able to set up a mobile HQ and repair facility at short notice.
		His role was the organisation of deployments, repair and recovery in hostile locations, verbal briefing of routes and the state of security whilst liaising closely with other military and Iraqi civilian organisations.
		Somewhat to his surprise, the Army suggested he went to university before Sandhurst and so he went to the University of Northumbria at Newcastle with an army bursary, from where he graduated in 1996 with BA (Hons) in Geography.
	www.prospects.ac.uk /cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Explore_types_of_jobs/Types_of_Job/p!eipaL?state=showocc&idno=196&pageno=8 (2942 words)

	GNN - Government News Network
		In order to allow ABRO to modernise and to be able to match changes to its workload, the Armed Forces Minister regrets to announce that ABRO sites at Donnington (West Mids), Warminster (Wiltshire) and Colchester (Essex) will close by March 2007.
		ABRO is also facing increasingly direct competition as a result of new and more efficient DLO contracting strategies.
		ABRO provides depth repair to much of the Army's fleet of armoured fighting vehicles, other military vehicles and fighting equipment.
	www.gnn.gov.uk /Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=176978&NewsAreaID=2 (901 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A ten-year contract, worth over £120 Million, for the base inspection and repair of the Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank and Driver Training Tank was signed today between Vickers Defence Systems and the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) of the Ministry of Defence.
		This level 4 repair process is designed to ensure the integrity of the CR2 hull structure on 19-25 tanks a year for a period of 10 years.
		Mike Hayle, Chief Executive of ABRO said, ‘The signing of this agreement for the base inspection and repair of the Challenger 2 means that our front line troops will continue to be well served by this excellent tank.
	www.abrodev.co.uk /news.asp?article=4 (567 words)

	News \| Telegraph
		The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that the Land Command, the organisation responsible for ensuring that British troops are properly equipped and trained to fight anywhere in the world, has been ordered to cut more than £40 million from its budget in the next eight months.
		Cuts to other departments in the Army, in addition to the Royal Navy and the RAF, are now expected, as the annual £1.3 billion costs of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan begin to bite into the defence budget.
		The document reveals that the building of a security fence at the Army's Dishforth air base, which is the home of 9 Regiment Army Air Corps, where Apache attack helicopters are based, has been cancelled because of the cash crisis.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/13/narmy13.xml (1106 words)

	Mark Pritchard - Member of Parliament for The Wrekin
		The seat has a large agriculture sector and is home to Harper Agricultural University College.
		The seat is also home to several key military establishments including: RAF Cosford (the largest operational RAF base in the world); MOD Donnington which is home to the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO); the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency (DSDA) and the Army Base Repair Organisation (ABRO)
		The district general hospital, the Princess Royal Hospital, is also located in the seat.
	www.markpritchard.com /constituency (346 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 25 Feb 2002 (pt 5)
		ABRO is having discussions with industry to develop future opportunities and currently has signed agreements to this effect with ALVIS and VDS which encourage the parties to discuss potential future projects.
		To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what proportion of the work allocated to ABRO in each of the last four years was put out to tender for competitive bids; and if he will make a statement.
		ABRO provides a comprehensive engineering and logistics support service, principally repair and maintenance, for land-based equipment of Her Majesty's armed forces.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo020225/text/20225w05.htm (1495 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		However, the appeal of the term was such that it was extended to a wide range of governmental organisations, such as executive agencies (from 1988) providing health, education and other services.
		In the course of this process, attempts were made to derive the acryonym from longer terms which did not carry the presumption that the organisation in question was non-governmental.
		Similarly, the insertion of the word "autonomous" does not work in a descriptive sense: the main complaint about these organisations is that they have too much autonomy, rather than, as with the original term, that their apparent autonomy conceals a close relationship with government.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=quasi-autonomous_non-governmental_organisation (849 words)

	DefenseNews.com - U.K. Begins Dismantling 2 Repair Agencies - 11/14/05 14:29
		The Defence Aviation Repair Agency (DARA) and the Army Base Repair Organisation (ABRO) have been told they are surplus to requirements in their present form.
		BAE, which produced most of the British Army’s armored vehicle fleet, signed a strategic partnership with ABRO earlier this year that calls for the government company to supply in-service fleet support for new and legacy vehicles, with BAE acting as the prime contractor and design authority.
		In addition, ABRO is closing two repair facilities at Colchester and Warminster, replacing them with smaller workshops integrated on 13 Army bases around the country.
	www.defensenews.com /story.php?F=1246229&C=europe (894 words)

	Challengers Set Sail For Jordan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first batch of ex-British Army Challenger 1 Main Battle Tanks being supplied to Jordan leaves the UK today, to take part in a parade in Amman on 14 November to commemorate the late King Hussein's birthday.
		ABRO's role is the provision of a repair and re-manufacture service primarily for the British Army but also for other armed services, government departments and commercial customers.
		ABRO is a major industrial organisation with an annual turnover in the region of 180 million pounds sterling, and a 2,800 strong workforce, strategically sited at seven principal locations across the whole of the UK.
	www.defense-aerospace.com /produit/848_us.html (317 words)

	Britpart - Land Rover, Range Rover, Discovery and Freelander Parts & Accessories
		Company secretary, Tony Overs explains: “We supply the British Army with spare parts for their Land Rovers, it is a significant customer, accounting for approximately 15 per cent of our business, so we are extremely pleased.”
		base, at Donnington, which is the main procurement base for the British Army.
		We also supply the Army Base Repair Organisation, with orders going out to depots across the UK.” says Mr Overs.
	www.britpart.co.uk /NewsStory.asp?NewsRef=23 (336 words)

	CatterickGarrisonWelcome
		As the UK Army’s largest base, Catterick Garrison is the standard bearer for the changing face of the modern British Army, strengthening ties with the local district and developing commercial opportunities within an integrated community.
		Included in the Garrison is Marne Barracks, a former RAF base handed over in 1994, and the outstations of Ripon, Dishforth and Topcliffe.
		There are more than 2,000 married quarters and heavy investment is to be made in providing modern new barracks and families’ living quarters of the highest standards under SDR.
	www.army.mod.uk /catterick_garrison/about_us/welcome.htm (384 words)

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	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 31 Mar 1993
		The Army has United Kingdom-manufactured depleted uranium tank ammunition which was procured for, and used during, the Gulf conflict.
		The Army base repair organisation comprises its headquarters at Andover, a contract repair branch and a network of base and district workshops.
		The role of the Army base repair organisation ranges from minor repair to full refurbishment of equipment for the Army.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1993-03-31/Writtens-1.html (3040 words)

	World Culinary Institute (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Delivers to its prime customer, the British Army, a range of services, products and engineering advice across the whole spectrum of land based weapon systems and equipment.
		Based at the British Embassy in Washington DC, the staff deal with all aspects of USUK defence matters.
		The Duke of York's Royal Military School (an agency of the UK Ministry of Defence) provides a unique education for 1118 year old children of those who have served for a minimum of four years on regular engagements in the British Armed Forces.
	www.worldculinaryinstitute.com /cgi-bin/odp/index.cgi?base=%2F%52%65%67%69%6F%6E%61%6C%2F%45%75%72%6F%70%65%2F%55%6E%69%74%65%64%5F%4B%69%6E%67%64%6F%6D%2F%47%6F%76%65%72%6E%6D%65%6E%74%2F%44%65%66%65%6E%63%65%2F%4D%69%6E%69%73%74%72%79%5F%6F%66%5F%44%65%66%65%6E%63%65%2F (858 words)

	Secretary of State for Defence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		To include in ABRO accounts, closing balances as at 31 March 1998 for the cost of spare parts held by the Agency: achieved.
		Work on fresh approaches to the ABRO system for handling customer feedback was not pursued through to implementation because the emerging findings of the Next Steps Report of Equipment Support presaged a fundamental change in Agency-customer relationships.
		To deliver a responsive repair service which matches the needs of the customer in peace and for operations to the agreed timeliness, quantity and quality criteria to the maximum extent possible with available resources.
	www.archive.official-documents.co.uk /document/cm42/4273/mod02.htm (470 words)

	ABRO Closure (Site not responding. Last check: )
		You are viewing the stored copy of a Telford Live forum post on ABRO Closure.
		Do you think that the better option would be to leave now and get a head start finding a new job, or wait it out, pick up a wedge of money and compete with the rest of them in the jobs market or hope the decision is reversed?
		ABRO Closure by people in Telford, Shropshire, UK
	www.telford-live.com /archive/578-ABRO-Closure.asp (106 words)

	APM Company Overview (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Its first field of work is related to the rewind, repair, design and modification of electric motors.
		We have for many years serviced motors and associated equipment for the Department of Defence Navy, and this is where our first opportunity in ground power units came from.
		Both companies have good sound fundamentals in all areas, and with continuing improvements to the organisation structure and marketing, Advanced Power Machinery Pty Ltd have a very bright and exciting future.
	www.apmgpu.com /company.shtml (367 words)

	UKDS 2005 - Glossary & Abbreviations
		ABRO provide fleet management, complex repair and servicing, and re-manufacture and assembly to the military, the defence industry and other commercial businesses.
		It is an organisation that has been developed to ensure that common practice is generated across all members of the groupings and to ensure that common interests can be catered for efficiently.
		Defence Logistics Organisation The DLO was formed on 1 April 1999 and brought together the logistics support organisations in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force and Centre staff.
	www.dasa.mod.uk /natstats/ukds/2005/glossary.html (4801 words)

	Country Profiles Foreign & Commonwealth Office
		Following the conclusion of coalition action against Iraq in May 2003, the Oil For Food Programme was wound down over a six-month period, delivering priority goods from the remaining revenue in the Programme during this period.
		With the end of the Saddam regime, there is a real opportunity for Iraqis to undo the damage of the past, exploit these natural advantages, and to set Iraq on the path to sustained economic growth and long-term prosperity.
		Helped organise courses in the UK for senior Iraqi police, prison and judicial officers under the EU JUSTLEX and rule of law programme.
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