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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - scheme for manning the Control...

Catalogue reference: WW2 AR C/2/38

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Reference
WW2 AR C/2/38
Date
3 Apr 1940
Description

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- scheme for manning the Control Room by male County Council staff;

- County ARP Officer memorandum regarding repair depots and equipment inspection;

- communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: recording and notification of air raid casualties; aids to movement of traffic; correlation of expenditure with approvals; Mixture G.2.D;

- communications with Senior Regional Officer regarding: Air Raid Precautions practice incendiary bombs; mobilisation of volunteers on Red Warning; Communications Exercise; taking of premises for civil defence purposes; Mobile Gas Van Trailer; trailers for Rescue Parties in Bedford Borough;

- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: Emergency Hospital Scheme; compensation for use of Methodist Schoolrooms in Bedford Road, Kempston and St.Mary's Methodist Church, Cauldwell Street, Bedford as First Aid Posts; reinstatement of buses converted to ambulances in Leighton Buzzard; Bedford Borough Mobile Unit;

- basement shelters in Biggleswade;

- appointment of a clock makers at East Bedfordshire Report & Control Centre, Sandy;

- unobscured lights in Houghton Regis;

- exemption of British Red Cross Society members from billeting of children;

- construction and repairs arising out of air raid damage;

- rhythmatic control for Bedford Borough Control Centre staff.

[ex W/ARPP 17]

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

acc. 6507

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/b33e56a2-c920-4f54-8d31-f0c6474a0237/

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WW2 AR C

Air Raid Precautions, Committee Material

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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - scheme for manning the Control...