SAA Store (Found beside flame float stores)

This may be a basic question but what does SAA stand for? Any help greatly appreciated.

Jim

SAA = Small Arms Ammunition Stores . Typically used to store munitions for airfield defence posts and one example being ; Drawing number 16075/41

see this thread www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/a...rms-ammunition-store

many thanks, makes sense now

Is your quoted Drawing Number accurate?

The Type F SAA Store came in several versions and is recorded as 16075/40

PETERTHEEATER wrote:

Is your quoted Drawing Number accurate?
The Type F SAA Store came in several versions and is recorded as 16075/40

I looked in all three books by 'the Great One' but could find no reference to SAA Stores , not even in the Airfield Defences softback of 2010 . I took that reference from 'British Airfield Buildings Of The Second World War' by Graham Buchan Innes , MCP , 1995 , page 117 .

I think that is a typo. The 16075/40 SAA Store was permanent brick and associated with early war airfields, By 1941 airfield construction had escalated and coupled with limited building materials, scarce finances and speed of build the storage requirements were revised in favour of austerity versions such as Nissen.

The 'British Airfield Buildings Of The Second World War' by Graham Buchan Innes , MCP , 1995 , page 117 . of which I have a copy) appears to show a Type F structure credited to Peterhead, Aberdeen.

There is a good example at Lichfield:

wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=5...grat=None&rgrat=None

And at Portreath:

wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=5...grat=None&rgrat=None

kebecker wrote:

see this thread www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/a...rms-ammunition-store

I think these two threads need merging, especially as the heading (Found beside flame float stores) isn't particularly relevant.