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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Misc: Printed Leaflets, 'No 1 Workshop Group, REME, Chillwell' and 'The Part a British Oil Company played in the War'


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 14

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: Misc: Printed Leaflets, 'No 1 Workshop Group, REME, Chillwell' and 'The Part a British Oil Company played in the War'

Date(s): 1944-1945

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

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CONTEXT

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CONTENT

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Collection includes four copies of printed leaflets, 'No 1 Workshop Group, REME, Chillwell', relating to the organisational structure of the Royal Electical and Mechanical Engineers, 1945; printed leaflet, 'The Part a British Oil Company played in the War', reprinted from the Petroleum Times, 28 Apr 1945, concerning asbestos compound waterproofing of Allied tanks and vehicles for Operation OVERLORD, the Allied invasion of France, 1944; reprint of photograph of US Sherman tank approaching French beachhead, 1944

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services

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Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

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Placed in the Centre in 1981

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INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Motor vehicles | Vehicles | Transport
Operation Overlord (1944) | Military operations | Military engineering
Petroleum industry | Power industry | Industry
War | International conflicts
Warfare | Military engineering
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Mechanical engineering
Military organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
British Army

Places
France | Western Europe | Europe