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Air-Raid Precautions
  Ogden's Cigarettes - 1938
  Reprinted 1999 - Card Collectors Society
  Wills's Cigarettes - 1939

Notes:  Cards are approximately 1-3/8" x 2-5/8". The album features a Foreword
by the Home Secretary: "This series of A.R.P. cigarette cards shows in clear
pictures some of the things that the Government and the Local Authorities are
working out for the protection of the general public, and also some of the things
that each member of the public can do for himself in time of emergency ..."
Thanks much to Kyle DeRoy for the original checklist!

No.   Title

  1   Choosing Your Refuge Room
  2   Rendering Your Refuge Room Gas-Proof
  3   Making a Door Gas-Proof
  4   Window Protection
  5   Window Protection against Blast
  6   Types of Splinter-Proof Wall
  7   Protecting Your Windows--A Sandbag Defence
  8   Equipping Your Refuge Room--(A)
  9   Equipping Your Refuge Room--(B)
 10   A Garden Dug-Out
 11   A Ventilated Gas-Proof Shelter
 12   A Gas-Proof Balloon Shelter (French Type)
 13   Incendiary Bomb and Its Effect
 14   Incendiary Bomb Cooling Down
 15   Control of Incendiary Bomb
 16   Removal of Incendiary Bomb with Scoop and Hoe
 17   Extinction of Incendiary Bomb
 18   The Stirrup Hand Pump
 19   Two-Men Portable Manual Fire-Pump in Action
 20   A Chain of Buckets
 21   Light Trailer Fire-Pump
 22   Light Trailer Fire-Pump in Action
 23   Medium Trailer Fire-Pump
 24   Medium Trailer Fire-Pump in Action
 25   Emergency Heavy Pump Unit
 26   Hose-Laying Lorry
 27   The Civilian Respirator
 28   The Civilian Respirator--How to Adjust It
 29   The Civilian Respirator--How to Remove It
 30   The Civilian Duty Respirator
 31   The Service Respirator
 32   A Heavy Anti-Gas Suit
 33   Rubber Clothing
 34   Air Raid Wardens and Civilian Volunteer Despatch-Rider
 35   Volunteer Mobile Corps (Owner Drivers)
 36   A First Aid Party
 37   Supply Depot for Respirators
 38   Mobile Gas Vans
 39   Civilian Anti-Gas School
 40   Testing for Gas Contamination
 41   Decontamination Workers in Training
 42   Air Raid Precautions Badge
 43   Representation of Air Defence Control Room
 44   Pilots Running to Machines (Interceptor Fighters) to Take Off
 45   Gloucester Gauntlet Interceptor Fighters
 46   Representation of Balloon Barrage for Defence of London
 47   Anti-Aircraft Searchlight
 48   Anti-Aircraft Sound Locator
 49   Height Finder
 50   Anti-Aircraft Gun

 --   "An Album to contain a Series of Cigarette Cards of National Importance"

©2001, 2002, 2004 Kyle DeRoy, Jeff Allender. Comments, updates, & corrections are welcomed!

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