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Installation guide with illustrations.

Original pamphlet. Installation guide with illustrations for erecting and sinking additional sections to accommodate 8-10 persons.

Includes "General effects of High-Explosive bombs" , "Protection against effects of high-explosive bombs" , "Analysis of air raid information" , "Camouflage and obscuration".

Note No. A.R.P. 9/GB. The testing of ground movement in open trenches in chalk subsoil when different yields of explosives are detonated nearby. Includes charts and data.

Figures, analysis and diagrams of tests conducted in the UK.

Lecture with diagrams on blast in air, explosions in the earth, and shelters.

E. N. Fox's opinions on a paper written by Ove N. Arrup about air-raid shelters and their effectiveness.

Details and findings of bombing trials at Netheravon on targeting aircraft on the ground.

Installation guide with illustrations.

Incomplete document. Only the diagram of basement shelter and part of a table remains.

Note No. A.R.P. 8/GB. Report on the earth and fortification tests on taken on the different types of trench shelters at Larkhill on October 20th 1939 and October 26th 1939. The tests were conducted by exploding different yields of bombs to test the shelters stability. Includes figures, graphs and diagrams.

Updates and reports on research projects related to blast and other air raid related topics.

Circular on implications of the Civil Defence Bill with regards to shelters at certain buildings.

Circular on implications of the Civil Defence Bill with regard to shelters at certain buildings.

A.R.P. department circular no. 287/1939. Report on offering Anderson shelters for individual purchase for those ineligible for free shelters. With outline of pricing, registration, procedure, supply, and forms. With draft of forms for use in sale scheme.

Item is a photocopy of blueprints.

Note no. ARP.101/NJHS. Report for the Ministry of Home Security. Summary of controlled explosions of bombs below ground to test the ground shock caused and its effect.

Note no. ARP.90/RJ. Report for the Ministry of Home Security. Summary of a series of scaled tests to study the penetration of blast waves into shelters with various forms of entrance. Shelters were built in accordance with Type A of the handbook "Directions for the erection of domestic surface shelters". Includes tables and diagrams.

Newspaper cut out from the Daily Mirror about two people surviving in an Anderson shelter as a body was dropped next to it. Includes picture of bomb crater.