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RG 23/17 - Retail Services and Shortages: A collection of reports on enquiries into the impact of shortages and the adequacy of repair and other services, 1943
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A Note of the Regional Organisation
I. Dry-Cleaning & Mending Services (Clothing)
II. Use of Laundries and Housewives' Difficulties
III. Mending Services (Clothing, Boots & Shoes, Bicycles, Watches & Clocks, Wireless Sets)
IV. Mending Services (Pots & pans, Electrical & Plumbing Repairs)
V. Pottery Shortages
VI. Soup Plates
VII. Hairdressing and Cosmetics
VIII. First Line Shortages
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CONTENTS
Page
Introduction
Reports
Sample
Date
I. Dry-Cleaning & Mending Services (Clothing)
Housewives
July 1942
1
II. Use of Laundries
Housewives
May 1942
8
III. Mending Services (Clothing, Boots & Shoes, Bicycles, Watches & Clocks, Wireless Sets)
General
Oct. 1942
10
IV. Mending Services (Pots & pans, Electrical & Plumbing Repairs)
Housewives
Jan. 1943
22
V. Pottery Shortages
Housewives
May 1942
26
VI. Soup Plates
Housewives
March, 1943
31
VII. Hairdressing and Cosmetics
General
Jan.-Feb. 1943
34
VIII. First Line Shortages
Housewives
Oct. 1942
40
Appendix. Number of families per house
Housewives
March, 1943
47
Navigate the documents
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A Note of the Regional Organisation
I. Dry-Cleaning & Mending Services (Clothing)
II. Use of Laundries and Housewives' Difficulties
III. Mending Services (Clothing, Boots & Shoes, Bicycles, Watches & Clocks, Wireless Sets)
IV. Mending Services (Pots & pans, Electrical & Plumbing Repairs)
V. Pottery Shortages
VI. Soup Plates
VII. Hairdressing and Cosmetics
VIII. First Line Shortages
Appendix
Contents
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