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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Ministry of...

Catalogue reference: WW2 AR C/2/37

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WW2 AR C/2/37
Date
20 Mar 1940
Description

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: Air Raid Precautions Training Manual No.2; provision of shelters by London Transport Passenger Board;

- communications from Senior Regional Officer: impassable roads - diversion of traffic; major damage reports; emergency petrol filling station in Bedford; provision of tools - basement shelters; public shelters on Harpur Trust land; basement shelters in Biggleswade; First Aid Party and Ambulance Depot at Park Farm House, Dunstable; garage and joint depot accommodation at Swallow Garage, Kempston; mutual assistance and reinforcements; equipment for First Aid Party Depots; Ampthill Cleansing Station;

- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: nursing equipment for inter-hospital ambulances; Mobile Surgical Teams; purchase of cars for sitting casualties; evacuee canteen at 38 Mill Street, Bedford; reinstatement of ambulances into buses in Leighton Buzzard;

- garage and joint depot accommodation at Swallow Garage, Kempston;

- shelter and communal feeding centre for Dunstable children;

- Navy, Army & Air Force Institute shelter at Biggleswade;

- air raid shelters on Harpur Trust land;

- appointment of full-time Air Raid Precautions volunteers.

[ex W/ARPP 16]

Held by
Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service
Language
English
Immediate source of acquisition

acc. 6506

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/5684b949-94a1-4208-a1c6-2c7019c52b70/

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WW2 AR C

Air Raid Precautions, Committee Material

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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Ministry of...