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FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED

... light out is more than a black-out warning. It is a reminder that unnecessary lights waste fuel. So let each one of us be a Fire Guard in the home on duty over the poker, taking charge of the gas taps and ever on the alert for any waste of fuel. ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 104 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

THE HIGHWAY OF FASHION

... of occasions, and they are very becoming. Then there is the all-in-one suit inspired by those worn by the members of the Fire Guard. A fact that cannot- be made too widely known is that this firm has enlarged its cotton shirt department. Cashmere pullovers ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 407 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

AIR EDDIES: Theirs or Ours

... the great city areas, nit guarding is now aimed (intentionally or not) at saving offices rather than home have discovered a fact which cannot be hidden. It is obviously with the best will in the world that large numbers of fire guar are marshalled night ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1042 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

This is a Salvage Slacker

... metal i provides steel for one hundred Bren guns. Five tons for 250 A. A. shells. Twenty I tons for a tank. A wire-mesh fire guard contains approximately the same I amount of metal as an A. A. shell. Bones. For extracting fat which makes nitro-glycerine ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 942 | Page: 48 | Tags: Photographs 

Air Eddies: No Flies on Time

... in service in the Ro>al Air Force squadrons. After all, there is no attempt to keep these things really secret, and any fire guard can obtain readily enough the silhouette charts of these machines. It looks rather as if there is still some idea in official ...

Published: Wednesday 17 September 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1196 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FIRE-GUARDS OF BRITAIN

... officers, even their own staff officers members of the Wardens' Service with special fire duties. The appointment of these head fire-guards and senior fire-guards was responsible for tightening-up the previously loose organisation. A month ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1736 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

GUARDING THE COASTS AND FIELDS

... get in another bull AN UNUSUAL VISION OF AN ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN The shell is seen being ejected after firing. The crews are now well practised in firing these efficient guns. Every part of the gun is now familiar and its little ways are known A WISE PRECAUTION ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 491 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH THE GUARDS AT GODESBERG

... triple programme In the room of S.S. Black Guards, lounged young ladies of the Guards Reper tory Company, no special piece of favouritism, but available to any from Ensa, and just now the Company under fire for playing in Paris and Brussels instead of ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1939 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

They Still Guard The Frontier

... They Still Guard The Frontier The Burden May Be Shifted Entirely To Indian Shoulders. Meanwhile British And Indian Warriors Still Guard The Passes As In The Days Of Desmond, V.C. By Harwood Steele THE North-West Frontier! There is magic-- Indian magic-- ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1946
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2217 | Page: 58 | Tags: Photographs 

Pictures in the Fire: Greek Fire

... exactly as he is told. What protection can the country of his Scarborough Home Guard Captain Kitching who led a parade of 700 members of the Scarborough section of the Home Guard, is seen with Lieut. -Col. Sir Ronald Adam (right), G.O.C. Northern Command ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1899 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

Pictures in the Fire

... been called the Horse Guards since 1687. In 1690, to distinguish them from the Dutch Horse Guards, brought over by Orange William, they were called the Oxford Blues, their colonel then being the Earl of Oxford. The 1 st Life Guards were raised by Charles ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1327 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs