001185
Description
A file of documents relating to petrol returns in Birmingham. Documents in the file include monthly statistics relating to the consumption of motor fuel by local authority services, with details of the amount of fuel stored, the amount of motor spirit and diesel oil consumed, the mileage travelled, and the numbers of available vehicles such as private cars, motorcycles, vans, and lorries. Services by which fuel supplies were consumed included A.R.P. services; fire services, including fire pump engines; medical services, including ambulances and first-aid vehicles; the Women's Voluntary Service; sanitation services; gas, water, and electricity supply services; highway services; education services; Poor Law services; agricultural establishments; financial services; housing services; libraries, including book transportation; mental health services; park and cemetery services, including the maintenance of recreation grounds; transport services; veterinary services; and weights and measures services. Subjects discussed in the file include petrol supplies for the fire service; and petrol coupon provisions.
Keywords
accommodation, administration, agricultural equipment, agriculture, air raids, air-raid precautions, air-raid shelters, ambulances, amenities, animal feed, banking, billeting, blindness, bomb damage, books, charity, children, civil defence, civil defence equipment, civilian casualties, construction, construction materials, coupons, dairy, decontamination, disability, disease, education, emergency procedures, finance, financial services, fire services, first aid, food supplies, fuel, gas, haulage, healthcare, homelessness, housing, infrastructure, libraries, livestock, local authorities, meat, mental health, milk, motor vehicles, motorcycles, oil, petrol, police, poverty, public health, public spaces, rationing, reception areas, recreation, repair, rescue, roads, salvage, statistics, surveys, timber, tractors, transportation, vaccination, voluntary organisations, water supply, welfare
