History of the Second World War. Works and buildings
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- Author(s) Kohan, Charles M
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1952
- Pages 540pp
- Publisher HMSO & Longman Green & Co
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with building programmes for wartime production with consideration of methods, growth and co-ordination of controls of construction, civil engineering, building materials and construction plant industries. Organised in five parts: 1] 'The rearmament period and the first phase of war, 1936-40': 'Rearmament and the building industry' / 'The demand on the building industry'; 2] 'Growth and co-ordination of control, 1940-42': 'Creation of the Ministry of Works' / 'Problems of control' / 'Co-ordination of the building programme under the Ministry of Production'; 3] 'Methods of control': 'Control of the building and civil engineering industries' / 'Control of building materials' / 'Control of contractors' plant' / 'The Works & Buildings Emergency Organisation' / 'Control over the repair of air-raid damage'; 4] 'Building programmes of departments': 'Building and civil engineering work of the Admiralty' / 'The War Office programme' / 'Building programme of the Air Ministry' / 'Building programme of the Ministry of Aircraft Production' / 'Ministry of Supply - Royal Ordnance Factories and other building tasks' / 'Constructional Work of the Ministry of War Transport' / 'Building by other departments'; 5] 'Reflections': 'Retrospect' / 'Prospect'