Saturday, August 28, 2010
A guardian of Regent Park Zoo in London puts a boa constrictor into a box, its shelter during the air raids. The bulb provided the heat.
Traffic signals, removed to confuse potential invaders waiting to be stored. In the end the only victims of the measure were British drivers.
London City employees paint white stripes on a light pole to make it visible to drivers and pedestrians during blackouts. Despite these precautions, the traffic accident rate increased during the first month of blackouts, but fell after the speed limit was fixed at 22 kilometers per hour.
Housewives queue to retrieve garbage in response to posters like the one below, designed to persuade Londoners to leave the pre-war practice of burning trash to cut municipal expenses. Now the government wanted to recycle everything possible
Members of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, a group of volunteers supporting the soldiers from the rear. A motorcycle test for mail delivery.
With masks and protective gear, the female crew of an ambulance, which previously had been a carpet cleaning van, undergoes inspection.
Dr. Jocelyn Henry Perkins, a priest of 70 years recruited by the national guard auxiliary force. The force assembled a million Britishers in August 1940. The instructors were retired NCOs.
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