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Child's ration book, used during the Second World War. Emergency supplies for the 4 million people expected to be evacuated were delivered to destination centres by August 1939, and 50 million ration books were already printed and distributed. [11] When World War II began in September 1939, petrol was the first commodity to be controlled.
British food imports fell from 22 million tons annually before the war to 12 million tons at the end of the war, thanks to greater domestic production of food, concentration and dehydration of some foods such as meat, milk, and eggs, and rationing, especially of imported and luxury items. Adequate nutrition was maintained by rationing.
A British Restaurant in Woolmore Street, Poplar, London, in 1942. British Restaurants were communal kitchens created in 1940 during the Second World War to help people who had been bombed out of their homes, had run out of ration coupons or otherwise needed help. [1] [2] In 1943, 2,160 British Restaurants served 600,000 very inexpensive meals a ...
Rationing had become the norm in the U.K., and the royal family was not exempt. Determined to get her dream dress, Elizabeth, who was just a princess at the time, saved up clothing coupons in ...
During World War II, India was a colony of Britain known as British Raj. ... Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls & Consumption, 1939–1955 (2000) 286p.
Indeed, food rationing was a major success story in Britain's war. [ 4 ] In the dark days of late June 1940, with a German invasion threatened, Woolton reassured the public that emergency food stocks were in place that would last "for weeks and weeks" even if the shipping could not get through.
A garrison ration (or mess ration for ... From 1815 to 1854 the daily ration for a British soldier in the United Kingdom was 1 pound of bread (453 g) and 3 ...
Two proposed ration packs were tested under field conditions in June 1943 and a new 24-hour ration was produced that combined the merits of both. The resulting 24-hour ration pack was a 17-kilojoule (4,000 cal) ration that weighed 990 grams (35 oz) and at 1,500 cubic centimetres (90 cu in) could fit into the standard British Army mess tin. The ...