33rd Infantry Brigade was reformed on 24th October 1941 in London District before being retitled 33rd Independent Infantry Brigade (Guards) on 10 November 1942. It was only intended for home defence. As such its attached REME Workshop would have had to have been co-located so I suggest the Northwood here is the
one in North West London.
The 33rd Guards Brigade Workshops REME was disbanded on 30th September 1943 shortly before the Brigade which it supported was also disbanded. All the REME soldiers in the Workshops would have been posted to other units.
REME as a Corps was itself only created in October 1942, so the soldiers in the 33rd Workshops would still have been getting used to their new role and identity, having previously been fitters and mechanics in the RAOC, RASC or RE, when their unit first joined the 33rd Brigade in January 1943.
