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	Electronic Encyclopaedia of Civil Defense and Emergency Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The shelter had its genesis in 1941 as a result of the combination of a growing understanding that an effective indoor shelter could be designed, in spite of the direction of Command Paper 5932, public hesitancy in using the uncomfortable Anderson shelter for all night alerts, and direction by Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
		The Morrison Shelter was a rectangular frame approximately 6 feet 6 inches long by 4 feet wide by 2 feet 6 inches high, with a solid 1/8 inch steel plate top, welded wire mesh sides, and a metal lath mattress floor, assembled from 359 individual parts using 3 tools supplied with it.
		In an examination of shelter performance in 44 representative heavily damaged houses, of 136 shelter occupants, 3 were killed, 13 seriously injured, and 16 lightly injured, in spite of shelters being buried under heavy loads of debris for extended periods of time.
	www.richmond.edu /~wgreen/ECDmorrisonsh.html (507 words)

	Air-raid shelter
		Air raid shelters are structures for the protection of the civil population as well as military personnel against enemy attacks from the air.
		Shelter marshals were appointed, whose function it was to keep order, give first aid, and assist in case of the flooding of the tunnels.
		It was then that these shelters began to become highly unpopular, and shortly afterwards householders were being encouraged to build or have built private shelters on their properties, or within their houses, with materials being supplied by the government.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Air_raid_shelter (2637 words)

	Morrison Shelters
		Within a few months nearly one and a half million of what became known as Anderson Shelters were distributed to people living in areas expected to be bombed by the Luftwaffe.
		was made responsible for air raid shelters and was instrumental in the introduction of the Morrison Shelter in March 1941.
		Morrison shelters were fairly large and provided sleeping space for two or three people.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWmorrisonshelter.htm (1404 words)

	Air raid shelter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shelter marshals were appointed,whose function it was to keep order, give first aid, and assist in case of the flooding of the tunnels.
		It was then that these shelters began tobecome highly unpopular, and shortly afterwards householders were being encouraged to build or have built private shelters ontheir properties, or within their houses, with materials being supplied by the government.
		In one examination of 44 severely damaged houses where 136 people had occupied Morrison shelters, and three had been killed,13 seriously injured, and 16 slightly injured, the fatalities, it was found, occurred in a house which had a direct hit, and someof the severely injured were in shelters sited incorrectly within the houses.
	www.therfcc.org /air-raid-shelter-197010.html (2408 words)

	Air-raid shelter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Anderson shelter was designed in 1938 by William Paterson and Oscar Carl Kerrison in response to a request from the Home Office and is named after Sir John Anderson, then Home Secretary and so responsible for air-raid precautions early in World War II.
		Anderson shelters were issued free to all householders who earned less than £250 a year, and those with a higher income were charged £7.
		The author of this article still had this type of shelter at the back of his house, a 12-inch thick solid reinforced concrete plate 8ft by 6ft resting on four brick walls plus door surrounding the shelter.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/air_raid_shelter (2500 words)

	Station Information - Anderson shelter
		The Anderson shelter was a British WW II air raid shelter.
		It was recommended that the shelter be placed at least 1 m into the soil and covered with a further 0.5 m of soil or sand bags.
		The shelter was designed in 1938 by William Paterson and Oscar Carl Kerrison in response to a request from the Home Office and is named after Sir John Anderson, then Home Secretary.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anderson_shelter.html (195 words)

	"Put That Light Out", childhood memories of wartime London, by Patricia Hardy.
		Volunteers were recruited for casualties in a pretend raid and all the children in the street would come forward to have their arms, heads, legs and other parts of their body bandaged and to be carried off on a stretcher.
		A lot of people had Anderson Shelters in their gardens (which more often than not were very damp) or like us had a Morrison shelter in their homes.
		It was a particularly heavy raid and we had to wait in the house because it was too dangerous to move to the shelter – bombs were dropping everywhere and a lot of the houses in the street were ablaze, the sky was unforgettable with fires burning all around.
	www.macksites.com /light.htm (1231 words)

	Air Raid Shelters
		John Anderson's original proposal was that the Anderson shelter should be erected indoors, but faced with the grisly picture of what might happen if the building collapsed, a fire broke out, and the people inside the shelter were roasted, it was approved for outdoor use only.
		The Morrison shelter was approximately 6 feet 6 inches (2m) long, 4 feet (1.2m) wide and 2 feet 6 inches (0.75m) high.
		When not in use as a shelter it could be used as a table (see illustration) by temporarily removing the welded wire mesh sides.
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /meltingpot/oxford/330/shel/shel3.html (206 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		Image:Image%28099%29.jpg rightthumbnailLondon Underground Air Raid Shelter Sign At the beginning of the war, the Minister of Home Security, Herbert Morrison, had misgivings about the utilisation of the '''tube stations''' and '''underground tunnels''' as public shelters.
		'''Morrison shelters''', officially termed ''Table (Morrison) Indoor Shelters'', were named after Herbert Stanley Morrison Herbert Morrison, the Minister of Home Security at the time.
		In one examination of 44 severely damaged houses where three people had been killed, 13 seriously injured, and 16 slightly injured out of a total of 136 people who had occupied Morrison shelters, it was found that the fatalities had occurred in a house which had suffered a direct hit.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Air-raid_shelter.html (2849 words)

	Air Raid Shelter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shelters for the use of travellers in buses or passers-by were palced near the main roads.
		The shelter was placed as near the house as possible and with the door facing the house wall.
		These shelters could bear the weight of house debris and the only risk was if the debris caught fire.
	www.westallswar.org.uk /new_shelter.html (592 words)

	Anderson Morrison Shelters : Blitz Experience Gallery : Coventry Transport Museum
		Grandad explained that the hole was for an Anderson Shelter.
		He explained that it was for us to shelter in when there was an air raid, so it was important that it was comfortable and cosy as sometimes we would need to spend whole nights in there when Coventry was bombed.
		Mum also bought a Morrison shelter for the house.
	www.transport-museum.com /gallery/blitzexperience/charlottes-story/shelters.aspx (218 words)

	MEMORY 2000
		That was the first kind of shelter and it was the general one, the Anderson shelter.
		And so the Morrison shelter was invented and this was a metal table, very heavy metal, and you could sleep underneath and it was a very great blessing.
		Well then the other way of sheltering which people had was to go down to the platforms of the underground and of course that was the main one, thousands of people used to go down every night.
	www.memory2000.net /int_uk_5.asp (2647 words)

	Morrison & Foerster : Legal Updates & News : Legal Updates : Anti-Tax Shelter Provisions of American Jobs Creation Act ...
		Require taxpayers that are SEC reporting companies (and their affiliates) to include disclosure in their SEC reports of certain tax shelter penalties imposed on them regardless of the materiality of the penalties.
		Code Section 6662(d), governing the regular substantial understatement penalty, is amended to make clear that, in the case of a tax shelter, for non-corporate as well as corporate taxpayers, satisfaction of the reasonable cause exception of Code Section 6664(c) is the only method of avoiding the penalty.
		For this purpose, tax shelter is defined broadly as: a partnership or other entity, any investment plan or arrangement, or any other plan or arrangement, if a significant purpose of such partnership, entity, plan, or arrangement is the avoidance or evasion of federal income tax.
	www.mofo.com /news/updates/files/update1363.html (3589 words)

	memories
		I remember when the war started and everyone was given a steel shelter, in sections, dumped outside the house.
		You could have this Anderson shelter or a Morrison shelter, which was a reinforced table.
		When there was an air raid on, we had a surface shelter made out of railway sleepers, and we had to dive in there.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/AnnStewardson/mem2.htm (767 words)

	The Brent Morrison Column: Seeking Shelter With Potassium Iodide
		Most of those old shelters lay buried and forgotten until the late, great Y2K scare, when a few were filled with canned goods and a smattering of others constructed.
		Then the threat passes, the bomb shelter fills with junk from the garage and the emergency food grows stale in the closet.
		Some of this was genuine, while the rest was akin to a spiritual bomb shelter, a safe place to hide until the all-clear sounds.
	www.brentmorrison.com /020617Nuke_Pills.htm (640 words)

	Air Raids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An alternative to the Anderson shelter, especially for those with little or no garden space, was the Morrison Shelter.
		Please remember that Anderson and Morrison shelters were designed to protect the occupants from bomb blasts and splinters but were not capable of protecting people from a very close or direct hit from a bomb.
		The Morrison shelter was 6 ft. 5 in.
	www.home-guard.org.uk /hfairraid.html (150 words)

	DESC's Emergency Shelter Programs
		In addition to providing safe, secure shelter, hot meals, and day-time safe haven from the streets, the shelter is a focal point for DESC’s outreach efforts, and helps people access a wide range of programs (both at DESC and elsewhere) that will help them stabilize their lives, and ultimately get permanent housing.
		During the day, the main shelter at The Morrison is a drop-in center where people can seek refuge from the streets and the weather, and access a wide variety of services, including hygiene facilities, mail and phone services and emergency clothing.
		Five DESC mental health case managers and a chemical dependency counselor are sited in the shelter, as are two mental health practitioners and a registered nurse from Health Care for the Homeless.
	www.desc.org /shelter_survival.html (442 words)

	Home Sweet Home Front - SHELTERS
		The shelters were free to those that earned less than £250 a year with a charge of £7 made to those that were on a higher income.
		It is also true to say that a lot of people decided to stay indoors during a raid, often hiding in a cupboard or under a table, preferring to stay close to each other and with their children.
		Nevertheless the Anderson and Morrison shelters did play their part in saving many lives and are looked back with thankful and fond memories.
	www.homesweethomefront.co.uk /web_pages/hshf_shelters_pg.htm (816 words)

	The story of the Blitz and the struggle of ordinary people to survive.
		Many people did not want to leave their homes, and even owners of Anderson shelters would forsake the shelter for the comfort of the understairs cupboard.
		The Morrison shelter was an iron cage that doubled as a table, but would protect the family as their house collapsed around them.
		Communal Shelters were constructed in the basements of certain houses for those who happened to be out and about when the raid happened.
	www.coursework.info /i/31910.html (748 words)

	critterchat: Re: Utah Ferret Shelter
		She is currently not allowed to engage in any further "sheltering" of animals.
		Thousands and thousands of man hours and dollars later,and many animal deaths later, Jen Morrison's "shelter" was shut down and she was officially charged and convicted.
		She : is currently not allowed to engage : in any further : "sheltering" of animals.
	members.boardhost.com /critterchat/msg/299.html (283 words)

	Air-raid shelter biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Operation Dynamo?, from where the rescue and evacuation of up to 338,000 troops from France was directed.
		The Anderson shelter was designed in 1938 by William Paterson and Oscar Carl Kerrison in response to a request from the Home Office and is named after Sir John Anderson, then Lord Privy Seal with special responsibility for preparing air-raid precautions immediately prior to the outbreak of World War II.
		Berlin Air-raid Shelters (Hochbunker), Flak Towers and Bunkers
	www.biography.ms /Air-raid_shelter.html (2607 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If they used a shelter at home then it would have been either an Anderson or a Morrison shelter.
		The roof was made of corrugated steel and was dome-shaped, the roof was bolted to strong rails and the structure was put 3ft underground with 18 inches of earth on top.
		It was a family shelter, free for most people, and one advantage it had over the Anderson shelter was that it could be kept indoors.
	www.holnet.org.uk /learningzone/londonatwar/shelter/p_homeshelters.html (226 words)

	Air Raid Shelters world war 2 the refuge room
		As Britain drew ever closer to war with Germany it became apparent that precautions had to be taken seriously to protect the population against possible bombing raids by the Luftwaffe.
		And, in 1938 Sir John Anderson devised a plan to protect the masses with some kind of shelter should Britain go to war with Germany, ranging from Public Shelters, Anderson Shelters, Morrison Shelters or Refuge Rooms which could be built in people homes.
		The one thing the Government feared most was that Germany would inevitably use 'Gas' as they had done in the trenches during World War I. Their fear was that German aircraft would drop bombs on Great Britain containing lethal amounts of gas.
	www.worldwar2exraf.co.uk /Online%20Museum/Museum%20Docs/airraidshelters.html (1299 words)

	A Girl's Life in London
		While they were at school, I played 'house' in the Anderson shelter, and one exciting morning, watched Grandpa burn out a nest of wasps which had set up in the earth covering the shelter.
		Suddenly a Morrison shelter appeared in the front room, and Mum and I slept in it.
		Of course our room had the Morrison in it, so it was pretty cramped in there, and Mum and Dad were very angry and blamed me. What I didn't realize, and they never told me, was that Grandpa was dying of cancer.
	www.historyplace.com /specials/personal/ww2child6.html (1260 words)

	"Concliffe" Durley Avenue Pinner
		The Air Raid Shelters were a great venue for us kids to play in.
		Even then we usually only bothered to go down to the Dining Room when the Sirens sounded, and we had another mattress in a corner between the wall and the fireplace - they said that was the safest place to be.
		These were big steel tables, kept in the kitchen, and when you went to bed, you were supposed to fasten a steel mesh net to the sides.
	home.austarnet.com.au /calum/Concliffe.html (2686 words)

	Shelter: Quest For Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Sil Shelter is intended for use in conjuction with a bivy in above treeline conditions.
		The Integral Designs Sil Shelter is an ultra light siliconized nylon tarp, specially shaped to set up on a hiking pole as a two person stand-alone shelter.
		See live article Air-raid shelter Work in progress Air raid shelters are structures for the protection of the civil population as well as military personnel against enemy attacks from the air.
	www.amaquest.com.tw /Business/ConstructionandMaintenance/ResidentialHousing/Shelter (828 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - 21st Birthday Cake in the Morrison Shelter - A4518867
		We also had an Alloy, and later a Morrison Shelter which was like an iron table with an iron grid cage like thing around it.
		My mother and father were both ARP Wardens and I remember neighbours saying they felt safe when my father was nearby — he was, or appeared to be, always calm and ready to help.
		We had to naturally take shelter from the factory sometimes in air raid shelters.
	www0.mh.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A4518867 (769 words)

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