Lord Ashfield: Reports and Memoranda on Wartime Transport Services
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 2856 (NEW)LT000483 |
Held at | : Transport for London (TfL) Corporate Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/culture-and-heritage/corporate-archives › |
Full title | : Lord Ashfield: Reports and Memoranda on Wartime Transport Services |
Date(s) | : 1939-1943 |
Level of description | : Series |
Extent | : 8 units |
Name of creator(s) | : Stanley | Albert Henry | 1874-1948 | 1st Baron Ashfield | MP and President of the Board of Trade |
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Content
Scope and content/abstract:
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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English
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Open
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Archival Information
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Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Entry edited from an Archives Hub description and published February 2014.
Rules or conventions:
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.
Date(s) of descriptions:
February 2014
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