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IOR/L/E/8/1683

Record Id:
040-000191768
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-000191768
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000125.0x0001d6
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/E/8/1683
Title:

E&O 6599/39 - Oil Installations during Wartime: measures for the protection of oil depots against enemy attack

Scope & Content:

File includes:

  • Emergency Powers (Defence) Regulations 1939 and an accompanying text on “Passive Defence Measures for Oil Installations in Great Britain”(October 1939)
  • Committee of Imperial Defence Oil Board First Special Report by the Oil Depots Committee on the “Extinguishing of Fuel Oil Fires in ‘Saucers’ ” (September 1938)
  • Committee of Imperial Defence Oil Board Second Special Report by the Oil Depots Committee on “Fire Resisting Properties of Concrete Wall Partitions in Oil Installations” [includes sketches and photographs of reinforced concrete walls that were used for trials for the Air Raid Precautions Department] (December 1938)
  • Committee of Imperial Defence Oil Board Third Special Report by the Oil Depots Committee on “Oil Fuel Tanks Trials, Shoeburyness, Essex, 30th-31st August 1938” [includes illustrations of (1) portable foam column for elevating over oil tank sides and (2) modification of oil tank swing arm connection for fitting the air foam-making branch-pipe by two alternative methods]
  • Statutory Rule and Order No.1180 (1939) on Emergency Powers (Defence) Docks and Harbours [the Petroleum Spirit in Harbours Order, 1939, dated 4th September 1939] (London: HMSO, 1939)

Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Project / Collection:
India Office Records
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-000184227
036-000190085
040-000191768
Is part of:
IOR/L/E : Economic Department Records
IOR/L/E/8 : Departmental Papers: Annual Files

 

IOR/L/E/8/1683 : E&O 6599/39 - Oil Installations during Wartime: measures for the protection of oil depots against enemy attack
Hierarchy:
032-000184227[0007]/036-000190085[1684]/040-000191768
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/E
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 file
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1939
End Date:
1946
Date Range:
Sep 1939-Feb 1946
Era:
CE
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