[ARC5] The comms war - VHF & HF (a bit OT).

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
To: "Leslie Smith" <vk2bcu at operamail.com>
Cc: "ARC-5 List" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] The comms war - VHF & HF (a bit OT).


> Hi Leslie,
>
> It was not only British factories that suffered.
>
> In about 1956, I was visiting my grandparents in Surrey. I 
> was repeatedly
> told not to go digging in the gardon or playing in the 
> pond because there
> were still unexploded bits from WW II dogfights there. 
> This was a full
> decade after the war ended. They still had a bomb shelter.
>
> Also, in either 1952 or 1956 a few things were still 
> rationed. I remember
> eggs being scarce. The same grandparents had a chicken 
> coop and a few
> hens, BTW.
>
> I believe a few things (rubber, gasoline?) were rationed 
> in the US, but
> nowhere near the UK.
>
> -John
>
    I don't know about British rationing but it was heavily 
applied here. Not only rubber and gasoline but meat, leather 
goods, including shoes, many metals and things made of them, 
also paper, a long list of things.  I picked up a little 
alarm clock not long ago at a swap meet. The dial said 
Waralarm on it so I looked it up.  Turns out that clocks 
were rationed because they contained brass.  This alarm 
clock was designed to minimize the use of brass and was made 
to sell to war workers who needed to be there on time. I 
have not done a web search for rationing but there may be a 
list somewhere.
    I remember shopping with my mom and seeing the ration 
books.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com