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116. TNA, MH 76/410, MH minute, ‘Face Masks’, 20 Feb 1941; Regional Officer, MH, Cambridge, ‘Hygiene in Public Air Raid Shelters’, 8 Mar 1941; MH circular, ‘Medical Aid Posts in Air-Raid Shelters’, 23 June 1941; TWA, MD-NC/276/3, Newcastle Council, ‘Preliminary Report as to Provision and Organisation of Dormitory Shelters’, 7 Feb 1941.

117. TWA, Newcastle City Council: Reports, speeches, notes 1940–41, report of the town clerk, 10 Nov 1941; TNA, HO 186/927, ‘Departmental Reports’, 33–4.

118. Gardiner, The Blitz, 129–30.

119. HHC, ‘Coventry Conference’, notes for the Hull Emergency Committee, 17 Dec 1940.

120. HHC, TSCD/4, ‘Town Clerk’s Report on the City’s Air Raid Welfare Services during raids of 7/8 and 8/9 May 1941’, June 1941, 1–10, 29–39.

121. See e.g. the civil defence preparations at the Team Valley Trading Estate on Tyneside: TWA, 1395/61, ARP file 1941–4.

122. LC, Doolittle papers, Box 18, James Doolittle, ‘Report on Visit to England from September 7 to October 15 1941’, 32–3.

123. UEA, Zuckerman Archive, OEMU/50/2, REDept, ‘The Sheffield Gas Supply and Steel Industry’; TNA, PREM 3/28/4, Beaverbrook to Churchill, 9 Sept 1940, enclosing Ministry of Supply, Iron and Steel Control, ‘Loss of Production due to Air Raid Warnings and Air Raids’.

124. TNA, PREM 3/28/5, Beaverbrook to Churchill, 30 Aug 1940; Beaverbrook to Edward Bridges, 1 Sept 1940; Anderson to Churchill, 3 Sept 1940.

125. LC, Doolittle papers, Box 18, ‘Report on Visit’, 31.

126. TNA, PREM 3/28/4, Bevin to Churchill, 1 Nov 1940, enclosing ‘Air Watching at the Rogerstone Works’.

127. Helen Jones, British Civilians in the Front Line: Air Raids, Productivity and Wartime Culture, 1939–45 (Manchester: 2006), 40–41, 47–50, 104; David Thoms, War, Industry and Society: The Midlands 1939–1945 (London: 1989), 119–21.

128. TNA, HO 186/927, ‘Departmental Reports’, 30–32, 38; TWA, MD-NC/94/18, Newcastle Air-Raid Damage Emergency Repairs Committee, minutes 4 May 1944; Thoms, War, Industry, Society, 120.

129. TNA, AVIA 15/2330, MAP, ‘Evacuation of Factories: Outline of Scheme’, 25 June 1940; Ministry of Labour, ‘Report on Labour Evacuation’, 20 June 1940. In general see W. Hornby, Factories and Plant (London: 1958), 203–8.

130. PArch, Beaverbrook papers, BBK/D/328, Note from MAP to the Air Ministry, 24 Oct 1940, memorandum on ‘Dispersal’.

131. LC, Doolittle papers, Box 18, ‘Report on Visit’, 30–32; TNA, AVIA 15/3746, Bristol Aeroplane Co, ‘Aero Engine Department Dispersal Scheme’, 31 Aug 1940; MAP to Bristol Aeroplane, 30 Sept 1940; Bristol Aeroplane to Director Engine Production, MAP, 15 Aug 1940.

132. TNA, HO 186/927, ‘Departmental Reports’, 29–30.

133. TNA, PREM 3/18/2, minute for Churchill, ‘Report on Damage at Woolwich with Action Proposed’, 13 Sept 1940; PArch, Beaverbrook papers, BBK/D/329, Beaverbrook to Portal, 24 Feb 1941.

134. TNA, PREM 3/18/2, Beaverbrook to Churchill, 14 Dec 1940; PArch, Beaverbrook papers, BBK/D/24b, Sir Ernest Simon to Beaverbrook, ‘Report on Lancashire Blitz Raids, December 20/24’, 25 Dec 1940, 1, 3; UEA, Zuckerman Archive, OEMU/57/3, draft report by Zuckerman and J. D. Bernal, ‘Birmingham’, 10 Jan 1942, 3–4; Thoms, War, Industry and Society, 106–12.

135. PArch, Beaverbrook papers, BBK/D/24b, ‘Report on Lancashire Blitz’; NARA, RG107 Box 138, MHS memorandum, ‘German Bombing of Britain 1941: Industrial Damage Report’; TNA, AIR 40/288, AI9 report, ‘The Blitz’, 14 Aug 1941, 2. Figures on steel and aircraft from Statistical Digest of the War (London: 1951), 105, 152–3.

136. TNA, MAF 83/194, file on ARP in West Africa and Malaya.

137. UEA, Zuckerman Archive, OEMU/50/2, REDept, ‘The Effects of Air Raids on the Port of Liverpool’, 1, 6–12; NARA, RG107 Box 138, ‘German Bombing of Britain’, 1.

138. TNA, PREM 3/18/2, War Cabinet, Air Raid Damage and Shelter Report, 11–18 Dec; ‘Statistical Summary of Air Raid Losses of Food and Animal Feeds’, 23 Dec 1940.

139. TNA, AIR 41/17, ‘RAF Narrative: The Air Defence of Great Britain June 1940–December 1941’, App 1, 4–5.

140. HHC, TSCD/4, ‘Town Clerk’s Report on the City’s Welfare Services’, June 1941; TWA, MD-NC/PH/1/1, ‘Medical Officer of Health Annual Report’, 1941, 34.

141. TNA, HO 186/927, ‘Departmental Reports’, 33. For stock figures see R. J. Hammond, Food: Volume III: Studies in Administration and Control (London: 1962), 804. Pre-war flour stocks averaged 314,000 tons, but by the end of 1940 were 695,000 tons and the end of 1941, 857,000 tons.

142. Jesse, Harwood, While London Burns, 118; Strachey, Post D, 48.