1. DAMAGE TO FOOD STOCKS. THE MINISTER OF FOOD gave details of the damage to food stocks as follows:- Flour 6,000 tons half a day's consumption Sugar 13,600 tons half a week's consumption Cheese 1,000 tons two days' consumption Tea 2,000,000 lbs. two days' consumption and minor losses of bacon, meat, coffee and cocoa. There had been some loss of productive and storage capacity through the destruction of flour mills, cold storage, margarine factories, and oil and cake mills (animal feeding stuffs).
- Civil Defence Region
- Region 6: Southern (Reading HQ) Region 5: London Region 10: North Western (Manchester HQ)
- Collection ID
- CAB71
- Document Reference
- CAB 71/23/4
- Document Types
- Summary
- File Reference
- CAB 71/23
- Former Department Reference
- ARD(40) 2nd Meeting
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.cab71.000023.004
- Keywords
- Air Raids Bacon Beef Bomb Damage Cereals Cheese Cocoa Coffee Communal Feeding Cotton Dairy Evacuation Flour Food Supplies Gas Homelessness Meat Pork Poverty Raw Materials Reserve Stocks Rest Centres Rubber Storage Sugar Tea Textiles Timber Wool
- Language
- English
- Locations Discussed
- Liverpool London Silvertown Southampton Wapping
- Organizations Discussed
- Air Raid Damage Committee
- Pages
- 5
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Bombing Evacuation Damage to Property Disruption to Services Agriculture Food Supply
