Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Emergency Services Division II and successors: Registered Files, Emergency Rationing Arrangements (EMR Series)

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Reference: MAF 313
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Emergency Services Division II and successors: Registered Files, Emergency Rationing Arrangements (EMR Series)
Description:

The series deals with rationing arrangements in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in the case of an emergency arising. It covers such topics as allocation and priority control of food, instructions to local food offices, storage, ships' stores, civil defence mobile columns, and the rationing of tea. Most files date between 1955 and 1967 but it also contains earlier papers relating to emergency rationing arrangements during and after the Second World War.
Date: 1939-1966
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EMR file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Emergency Services Division II, 1955-1960
Physical description: 67 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1990 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Accumulation dates: 1955 to 1967.

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