Newcastle University Boat Club had owned a boathouse on the site since 1929, but in 1951 the British Electricity Authority requisitioned it, forcing the club to move upstream to its current location in Newburn.
During the war the steelworks mainly produced armaments and ammunition, and it went on doing so after 1944 when the Nazis requisitioned it from the Weisses, the Jewish family who owned it.
As World War II approached, the institution closed and the building was auctioned; but before it could be sold, the Royal Engineers requisitioned it for their use during wartime.
It was extended to the north in 1886, and was used as a training college until the Second World War, when the Royal Engineers requisitioned it and used it to store their records and archives.
On a farm just 100km south of the French capital, a man spreads straw over the dusty black flanks of a 1939 Citroën Traction Avant; the advancing blitzkreig has an insatiable appetite for wheeled transport, and is known to requisition cars it meets on its march west.
The Defense Department has long had its own rules for requisitioning its gear, as it retains the title to dispensed military hardware, but the Pentagon's Wright said the military only reclaims that gear "under very rare circumstances".
While the Kronshtadt mutiny was still in progress, Moscow announced the abolition of the universally hated policy of grain requisitions, replacing it with a tax in kind.
But with the urban economy now booming, the government can no longer simply requisition any surface it wants to spread its word.
