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This series contains reports and memoranda on the purchase of stores and stocks, including details of tyre contracts and lists of contractors, proposed contracts for the sale of bus bodies and war risk clauses, the use of firezone oil and waste oil and fuel rationing as well as Railway Executive Committee correspondence on petrol allocation and coupons.

This series contains reports, memoranda and minutes on wartime transport services, including details of war service allowances, rates of pay, staff negotiations, the threat of sabotage, finance, air raid precautions, protection of London Passsenger Transport Board properties, the employment of aliens, the Home Guard, air raid warnings and continuance of work, awards for bravery, casualties, damage, fire watching, passes and permits and a review of expenditure. Also included are meetings on the management of joint line railways, the simplifying of the fares system and the increasing of line capacity, as well as on the design and equipment of railway rolling stock required in the immediate post war years.

This series contains tests, drawings and photographs of railway rolling stock, including details of the surface lines of rolling stock replacement programmes, a proposed rolling stock programme for the District, Circle and Metropolitan Lines, Chairman's conference minutes including financial details, National Service for staff, matters approved by the Chairman for submission to the Board, Special Expenditure Requisitions (SERs), air raid precautions, engineering first class traffic, the standardisation of signs, a station proficiency competition and emergency measures on railways.

This series contains reports, memoranda and extracts from minutes concerning projects for London Underground lines, including details of planned extensions to lines, electrification schemes and the building of additional tracks. Also included are details of programmes of works to be carried out, progress reports, details of Bills to be put forward in Parliament, particulars of work contracts placed, and notices of drawings and plans signed or to be signed.

This series contains reports, memoranda and correspondence including details of the Railway Benevolent Fund, the British Institution of Management, an international congress on Industrial Medicine, a competition to design a bus shelter and a London Transport pageant. Also includes correspondence and invitations to exhibitions and articles for the press by members of staff.