Chairman's Conference Minutes

With a new scheme of organisation approved on 3 May 1940, this file contains signed minutes of meetings 1-93. Matters covered include finance, traffic receipts, war damage, operation of services, revision of fares, extensions of contracts, pensions, the evacuation of the civil population, air raid precautions, protection of Board's properties and a new works programme for 1935-1940. Also included are details of emergency arrangements, paper economy, Special Expenditure Requisitions (SERs), decentralisation, music and entertainments at works, the employment of women, the use of tube stations as air raid shelters, Railway Control Agreement, Home Guard, the use of private cars, rolling stock, free travel passes, war advances, wages, the staff position, the dispersal of stores and buses, annual leave, post-war development and problems, window netting rolling stock, producer gas, Board's aircraft factories, deep level shelters and flood protection.

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