The museum curator Tim Shields said the bus was still brand new in 1914 when it was requisitioned complete with its driver and mechanic and sent to France, where the windows and advertising signs were boarded up, the gorgeous livery covered in khaki paint, and it was sent into action as a troop-carrier and ambulance.
Between the wars, it continued to expand its position in the market place for quality surveying instruments, although it was requisitioned by the British Government during World War II.
It had been the Turkish police station, he said, and during Leachman's time it was requisitioned by the British.
During the World Wars it was requisitioned as government quarters, remaining part of the Ministry of Defence until the mid-Noughties.
It was requisitioned as a hospital and the opulent Rotunda ballroom, scene of high-society parties, was used as an operating centre.
The bank's remaining representative, an Indian citizen, was happy to loan it to us because he thought our presence would prevent it being requisitioned.
An architect renovates the house; at the end of the second world war, it's requisitioned by the Russian army; then, under the GDR, the architect has to flee for having done illegal business with the west.
Make the most of the open period between Christmas and New Year this winter on a walk around "this curious Wiltshire village, deserted since 1943, when it was requisitioned by the MOD for army training".
Instead nobody even bothered to maintain the inadequate, overpriced station car park, until last year when half of it was requisitioned to create a car park for the O2, as the Dome is now to be known.
Like his camps, it was requisitioned (this time by the SOE) before he could develop it.
During World War II it was requisitioned by the army and used to billet officers.
