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Title: Ration Book, 1946 [Go to resource]
Description: Food ration books came into use on 8 January 1940 and lasted for over a decade. Biscuits were one of the foods subject to points rationing where everyone was given 16 points a month (later raised to 20). The rationing scheme worked in Huntley & Palmers favour against some of the cheaper biscuit manufacturers as it encouraged people to buy quality biscuits to obtain 'value for points'. The points rationing system ended in 1950. 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: Ministry of Food Rights holder: Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) Subjects: rationing
social history
food
Smallcombe, G.W.
industry
biscuit
people
warTemporal: start=1946-01-01; end=1946-12-31; 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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