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Title: Factory ARP services plan, 1940 [Go to resource]
Description: The company started preparations for the Second World War in April 1939 by building air raid shelters and fitting dimmer lights for blackouts. The German occupation of France resulted in the directors setting up an armed posse to protect the factory; this later became part of the Home Guard. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Publisher: Huntley & Palmers Rights holder: Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) Subjects: building
environment
social history
trade
warTemporal: start=1940-05-01; end=1940-05-31; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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