Series GB 2856 (NEW)LT000483 - Lord Ashfield: Reports and Memoranda on Wartime Transport Services

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GB 2856 (NEW)LT000483

Title

Lord Ashfield: Reports and Memoranda on Wartime Transport Services

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  • 1939-1943 (Creation)

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8 units

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GB 2856 (NEW)LT000483 1939-1943 Series 8 units Stanley , Albert Henry , 1874-1948 , 1st Baron Ashfield , MP and President of the Board of Trade

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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.

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Open

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English

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Entry edited from an Archives Hub description and published February 2014.
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
February 2014 Urban transport Wars (events) World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) People People by occupation Personnel Transport personnel State security Defence Civil defence Air raid precautions Transport infrastructure Railways Transport London Passsenger Transport Board Home Guard x British Home Guard x Local Defence Volunteers London England UK Western Europe Europe

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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.

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Open

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Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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English

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Transport for London (TfL) Corporate Archives

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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  • English

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