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

[Richard Knoppow]

     I think one big difference is that rationing went on in 
the UK for much longer than in the US. I did find a partial 
list of rationed items on the web with dates.  The earliest 
listed was tires and rubber.  I remember that some delivery 
vehicles in Detroit were horse-drawn. I think this may have 
been partly due to the depression but also horse-drawn 
wagons do not use rubber or gasoline. They disappeared 
pretty quickly after the war.
     There has been some controversy about the necessity of 
some of the rationing but I think that does not recognize 
that the U.S. was supporting the UK and Russia and other 
allies.  This is really OT so I will stop.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
To: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
Cc: "Leslie Smith" <vk2bcu at operamail.com>; "ARC-5 List" 
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Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] The comms war - VHF & HF (a bit OT).


> OK. I was too young to have seen rationing in North 
> America, but I
> remember it as a kid visiting in the UK as I've said.
>
> -John
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>> ----- 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).
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>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Richard Knoppow
>> Los Angeles
>> WB6KBL
>> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
>>
>>
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