SZ/OEMU/13/2/8 - Memo on Visors, 21/3/41

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/13/2/8

Level of description

Item

Title

Memo on Visors, 21/3/41

Date/s

1941

Quantity & Format

3 leaves

Subject

Splinters -- Wounds and injuries

Creator

Great Britain. Ministry of Home Security. Research and Experiments Department.

Scope and content

Discusses the different types of visor submitted to the MOHS for testing and the different types of fragments with which the visors have to cope. Lists data on eye injuries sustained by casualties with and without visors and details the protection afforded by the visors. Includes a photograph of a plasticine head, embedded in which are fragments except around the eyes which were covered with a visor.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
  - SZ/OEMU/13 - [OEMU. Eyes]
    - SZ/OEMU/13/2 - [OEMU. Eyes. Correspondence with E.D. Van Rest]
      - SZ/OEMU/13/2/8 - Memo on Visors, 21/3/41

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