SZ/OEMU/2/6/4 - [Letter, SZ to Roy Harrod, 18/10/40]

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/2/6/4

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, SZ to Roy Harrod, 18/10/40]

Date/s

1940

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Subject

Subways -- United Kingdom -- London
World War, 1939-1945 -- United Kingdom -- London

Creator

Zuckerman, Solly, 1904-1993

Creator

Harrod, Roy

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

SZ provides figures for the cost and time of constructing concrete shelters. The adaptation of unfinished steel frame buildings would provide shelter against a 250kg bomb for up to 1 million people. The underground tube could only provide shelter for 200,000 people. Further statistics showing the differential effects of bombardment on different parts of London, provided by Bradford Hill, are available for Harrod to see.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
  - SZ/OEMU/2 - [OEMU. Research queries and correspondence, 1940-1962]
    - SZ/OEMU/2/6 - [Shelters, 1940-1942]
      - SZ/OEMU/2/6/4 - [Letter, SZ to Roy Harrod, 18/10/40]

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