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1 - Emergency Committee draft minute book
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Expand 1 - Civil Defence and Air Raid precaution circulars 1 - Civil Defence and Air Raid precaution circulars
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1 - Notes on Gas Tests and Exercises
2 - Inspection of Respirator Containers (Civilian C.D. types) held in local reserve
3 - Identification of objects dropped from the air
4 - Buttons for Civil Defence Uniforms
5 - Civil Defence General Services. Freezing of part-time members
6 - Civil Defence General Services. Employment of whole-time paid personnel on Constructional and other work
7 - Decontamination of vehicles
8 - Badges for A.R.P. Instructors
9 - Record of wear of C.D. Respirators in Gas
10 - Additional Whistles for wardens' posts
11 - Cycles for Civil Defence (Outdoor) Messenger Service
12 - Civil Defence General Services, Freezing of part-time members
13 - Civil Defence Motor Transport
14 - Incident Officers' Lamps Spare Glasses
15 - Decontamination problems in public utility services
16 - Civil Defence Staff College
17 - Axes, hand lamps and weather protective clothing for Fire Guards at Depots
18 - Civil Defence and the Home Guard
19 - Civil Defence Duties (Compulsory Enrolment) (No.3) Order 1941
20 - Treatment and disposal of traffic contaminated by poison gas while on Railway
21 - Fire Prevention Duties: proposed grant of exemption in certain circumstances
22 - The importance of joint arrangements under the Business premises Order
23 - Re-use of Bluette Overalls. (Patts. A.R.P. 41. 41 and 43)
24 - Fire Prevention Orders: the application of the phrase vital work for exceptionally long hours
25 - Conventional Signs for use on Maps for A.R.P. purposes
26 - Anti-freeze for Civil Defence and Police Vehicles. Further supplies now available. Recovery at the end of winter
27 - Civil Defence General Services. Increase in the basic pay of whole-time personnel
28 - Civil Defence General Services. Hours on duty of members of whole-time paid Service
29 - Members of the Civil Defence General Services. Including Local Authority Fire Guards. Payments during absence on account of sickness or injury
30 - Revision of the purple Air Raid Warning List. Fire Force Establishments
31 - Splinter-proof Crash Helmets for motor cycle despatch riders
32 - The Fire Guards Handbook
33 - Industrial Registration of Members engaged in continuous whole-time paid service
34 - The King's Fund (1940)
35 - Repercussions on fire prevention arrangements at business premises of directions under the Defence Regulations to persons to perform Home Guard Duty
36 - Provision of Underclothing and Socks for Personnel of the Public Gas Cleansing, Food Treatment and Decontamination of Civilian Clothing Services
37 - Amendments to A.R.P. Training Publications
38 - Free Holiday Fares for Full-time C.D. Personnel in Heavily Raided areas
39 - Spare Parts for Hurricane lamps
40 - Re-use of Bluette Overalls. (Patts. A.R.P. 41. 41 and 43)
41 - Conditional Release of Civil Defence Personnel for employment in War Industry
42 - Civil Defence General Services. Direction under Defence Regulation 29BA to enter part-time Civil Defence Services
43 - Civil defence (outdoor) Messenger Service. Assistance by Members of the Army Cadet Force and Junior Training Corps, and of the Air Training Corps
44 - Reporting of Air Raid Damage to Buildings of Historic or Architectural Interest
45 - Stocktaking of A.R.P. Equipment
46 - Protective Equipment: Scales of Issue
47 - Public Entertainments
48 - Public Entertainments-Greyhound Racing
49 - Lighting (Restrictions) Order. Part 1. Exemptions for glare
50 - A.R.P. Handbook No. 9 Incendiary Bombs and Fire Precautions: Second Edition
51 - Removal and storage of household chattels order 1942
52 - Civil Defence General Services. Progressive De-reservation and revised Deferment Procedure
53 - Public Entertainment-Greyhound Racing
54 - Tyres for Civil Defence Vehicles
55 - Annual and Special Leave for members in continuous whole-time paid service
56 - Display of Lighted in Premises Occupied by His Majesty's Forces
57 - Civil Defence General Services, including head and Senior Fire Guards. Refund of additional daily travelling expenses of whole-time paid personnel
58 - Measurements to enable whole time Civil Defence Personnel to make a more active contribution to the general war effort
59 - Compensation for Damage to or loss of personal property sustained while on duty
60 - Gas Identification Service
61 - Revision of Code-Regulations, etc. under part III of Civil Defence Office Act 1939
62 - Recovery of Anti-Freeze supplied for Civil Defence and Police Vehicles
63 - Civil Defence General Services. Reduction of Paid Personnel-Enrolment in the Police Ware Reserve
64 - Civil Defence General Services. Release of Mobile Women
65 - Fire Prevention (Business) Order 1942 and Fire Prevention (Government Premises) Order 1942
66 - Replacement of C.D. Uniforms and Boots or Shoes
67 - 1. Disposal of Civil Defence Vehicles. 2. Spare parts required for C.D. Vehicles
68 - Fire Prevention
69 - Anti-Gas Drill and Instructions with regard to operation of the ventilation and gas-filtration plant in report and control centres
70 - Spares shortage Certificates for spare parts for Civil defence Vehicles
71 - Simple Basic training in Civil Defence for members of the women's voluntary services
72 - Educational facilities for Civil Defence personnel
73 - Aids to movement
74 - Discarded Bluette Overalls for whole time members of Rescue Services
75 - Pocket Chart-War Gases. Their nature, effects and first aid treatment
76 - Civil Defence General Services. Compensation in respect of injuries sustained during authorised games or recreational activities
77 - Fire Prevention (Business Premises) Order 1942
78 - Maintenance of fleet of part-time cars for Civil Defence purposes on the abolition of the basic petrol ration
79 - Earplugs
80 - National Fire Service Personnel-Training in Anti-Gas Measures
81 - 1. Civil Defence Welfare and Comforts. 2. Physical Recreations, Sports and Games
82 - Definition of Civil Defence Duties and Liability for part-time Civil Defence Service of whole-time Members released for Industrial or other work
83 - Arrangements for the purchase by Employers of Protective Clothing for A.R.P. Services
84 - Hiring of Petrol pumps
85 - Economy in use of petrol and tyres
86 - Anti-Gas Drill and Instructions with regard to operation of the ventilation and gas-filtration plant in report and control centres
87 - Incidence of Civil Defence Expenditure
88 - Standards of Accommodation and Sleeping Facilities at Civil Defence and Fire Guard Depots
89 - Roping off and Marking of Gas Contaminated Areas
90 - Fire Prevention: special arrangements during holiday periods at business premises to which the Business Premises Order applies
91 - Maintenance of Essential part-time cars on the abolition of the basic petrol pumps
92 - Tyre wear at high speed
93 - Insurance of Vehicles
94 - Civil Defence General Services, including Local Authority Fire Guards. 1. Rank Markings and Helmet Markings. 2. Wearing of Uniform
95 - Withdrawal of Clothes Rationing Coupons from wholetime members of C.D. Services supplied with overalls
96 - Salvage of Outworn Serge Uniforms
97 - Civil Defence Wardens and Messenger Services-Allowances for the Upkeep of pedal bicycles
98 - Fire Prevention. Instruments recently issued by the Minister of Home Security
99 - Pocket Chart-War Gases. Their nature, effects and first aid treatment
100 - memorandum on Demolition and Clearance
101 - Supply of petrol to Civil Defence Vehicles when the normal source of supply is not available
102 - Recovery of Anti-Freeze supplied for Civil Defence and Police Vehicles
103 - Clearance of Lofts Order, 1942
104 - Fire Prevention: Measures decided upon to make the fullest use of available man-power and to institute compulsory training in Fire Guard Duties
105 - Bombs containing phosphorus and other new devices
106 - Civil Defence Staff College
107 - Preservation of Respirators issued to the public
108 - Cost of Living Bonus for Local Authorities Staffs
109 - Compulsory Training of Fire Guards
110 - Fire Prevention Tactical Appreciation
111 - Syllabus of Fire Guard Training
112 - A.R.P.Handbook No.13 Fire Protection
113 - Use of Bluette Coats, Patts. A.R.P. 42 and 43 for Rest Centre Personnel
114 - Conservation of Rubber-Respirators and Rubber Footwear
115 - Rescue Service Manual
116 - Training of Instructors for the Fire Guards
117 - Addendum: Training if Fire Guards and their Instructors
118 - Civil Defence General Services, Productive Work in Civil Defence Depots
119 - Use of Civil Defence Vehicles for Extended duties
120 - Identification of objects dropped from the air
121 - Expenditure by local authorities arising out of combined military and Civil Defence exercise
122 - A.R.P.Memorandum No.15 Care and Custody of Equipment-Third Edition. Salvage of Scrao and Packing Materials
123 - Volunteer Car Pools. Part-time Cars for Local Authorities
124 - Dissemination of urgent operational orders
125 - Insurance of requisitioned hired or borrowed vehicles
126 - Treatment of Prisoners of War by Members of Civil Defence Services
127 - Reimbursement of pay whole-time personnel of Rescue Party Services
128 - Lantern Slides for Training Purposes. Decontamination of Streets. Rescue Work
129 - Sale of civilian helmets for fire prevention personnel on business and workers in commercial premises, small factories
130 - Uniforms for Civil Defence General Services. Refusal to surrender clothing coupons
131 - Notes on Civilian Services in Great Britain
132 - Tyres for full-time Civil Defence Vehicles
133 - Procedure relating to sales of equipment etc. to Local Authorities
134 - Annual Returns of Stocktaking of A.R.P. Equipment
135 - Lighting of outer stripping sheds at public Gas Cleansing Centres
136 - Traders Salvage Schemes
137 - Anti-Freeze mixtures for Civil Defence and Police Vehicles
138 - Reporting of Fires by Air Raid Wardens
139 - Lifts to Unofficial Passengers by Civil Defence Vehicles
140 - Sales of Equipment to Local Authorities. Price Reductions
141 - Function of A.R.P. Control in relation to the Rest Centre Service
142 - Civil Defence Day, 15 November 1942
143 - Civil Defence General Services, including Head and Senior Fire Guards-Post-war Credits
144 - Travelling expenses of qualified A.R.P. Instructors
145 - Maintenance of fleet of motor cycles with or without side-cars used part-time for Civil Defence purposes in the abolition of the basic petrol ration
146 - Arrangements for the purchase by Employers of Protective Clothing for A.R.P. Services
147 - Position and Duties of the Civil Defence Services in the event of an invasion
148 - Prices of Civil Defence Uniforms
149 - Training Film A New Fire Bomb
150 - Precautions against small unexploded Anti-Personnel Bombs
151 - Decontamination of Streets: removal of Restrictions
152 - Salvage of Property and Clearance of Debris
153 - Salvage collection by Civil Defence Personnel
154 - Chart of Respirator Containers
155 - Tyres for full-time Civil Defence Vehicles
156 - Devices to facilitate the attacking of incendiary bombs from behind cover
157 - Cycles for Civil Defence (Outdoor) Messenger Service
158 - Release of whole-time Personnel
159 - Silent Versions of Training films
160 - Delegation of Authority in the Civil Defence Messenger Service
161 - Protective Clothing for Local Authorities' Fire Guard Trailer Pump Crews
162 - Supply of washing soda and copper sulphate crystals
163 - Starting up Engines of Vehicles during Winter Months
164 - Incidence of Civil Defence Expenditure
165 - Communications
166 - Lantern Slides for Training Purposes.
167 - Timber Salvaged from War Damaged Sites
168 - Civil Defence General Services. A. Increase in Basic Pay of whole-time personnel. B. Revised maximum rates of compensation for loss of wages sustained by part-time unpaid Members
169 - War damaged property. Demolition and Clearance of Debris. Insurance of Employers Liability and Public Liability Risks
170 - Hot Water Arrangements for Gas Cleansing
171 - Shows of Training Films in Public Cinemas out of Programme Time
172 - Civil Defence General Services: Productive work in Civil Defence Depots
173 - Handbook The Detection and Identification of War Gases
174 - Supply of washing soda and copper sulphate crystals
175 - Christmas Message to the Civil Defence services
176 - War Damage to private vehicles used for Civil Defence purposes which are not insured by their owners under the Private Chattels Scheme of the War Damage Act, 1941
177 - Control Room
178 - Revised Prices for Articles provided through Central Purchase
179 - Sale of Stirrup Hand Pumps; Revision of the scheme set up under H.S.C.
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6 - Intensive bombing and invasion circulars
7 - Civil defence: Manual of basic training
Expand 3 - Air Raid Precaution and Civil Defence [correspondence] files3 - Air Raid Precaution and Civil Defence [correspondence] files
Expand 4 - Civil defence accounts4 - Civil defence accounts
5 - Register of air raid incidents
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