IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 2856 (NEW)LT000483
Held at: Transport for London (TfL) Corporate Archives
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
CONTEXT
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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.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Conditions governing access:
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.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2014