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Old 19th Mar 2018, 5:56 pm   #1
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Default WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes

A friend of mine rescued a box of these a few years ago from a shop that had closed down.
Quite interesting due to age and also the special wrapping and notes attached to them urging people to salvage the wrapping for the war effort.
The bulbs do work too.
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Old 19th Mar 2018, 6:20 pm   #2
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Related : somewhere I have a Cossor radio valve box with 'Do not burn this carton, save it for your salvage collector' (or something similar) printed on one of the flaps.
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Old 19th Mar 2018, 9:54 pm   #3
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Early post war 'Practical Wireless' also has the same advice. J.
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Old 20th Mar 2018, 12:45 am   #4
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Most paper and wood products were imported, hence the need for recycling. I have some wartime copies of wireless world where the ads have been removed, probably for recycling.)
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A friend of mine rescued a box of these a few years ago from a shop that had closed down.
Quite interesting due to age and also the special wrapping and notes attached to them urging people to salvage the wrapping for the war effort.
The bulbs do work too.
I would think they would urge you to retain the brass base as well as the packaging. If it wasn't damaged it could be used again for new lamps.
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It's always fascinating to find historical markers like this- the Forestry Commission had been set up as a result of the enormous usage of domestic timber in WW1, but despite vast acquisition and planting between the wars, the rapid usage and depletion during WW2 surprised the planners, leading to further investment and afforestation post-war. Things we lose sight of with international trade shifting the chainsaws to other peoples' forests....
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I have somewhere a booklet issued to store keepers in the American armed forces during the last war.
"Correct packing of electrical and electronic goods in wartime"

It notes that whilst card and paper can be recycled, that attention should be given to use as packing materials, goods that are directly useful in themselves.
Examples included

radio tubes, place in military socks.
delicate or sensitive equipment, wrap in blankets.
High voltage glass or ceramic insulators, place in strong boxes surrounded by loose grain.
bulky but delicate equipment, place in purpose made wooden cases, surrounded by sacks of grain.

"socks, other uniform, blankets, and grain are valuable materials of war, and if used to protect other supplies in transit, give two uses for the price of one"
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I recall reading in an issue of New Scientist many years ago that over 90% of wartime replacement CRTs were found to be unserviceable because of transit damage resulting from inadequate packaging and that this had lead to a major post-war reappraisal of the approach to packaging delicate items generally. That "over 90%" figure took me aback, and still does, but it's easy to believe that a high proportion were damaged simply from forum members' experience re. oscilloscopes and couriers!
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Years ago, I bought a German war-surplus CRT, which was packed in moulded inserts made of foam rubber mixed with human hair, the origin of which gave pause for thought.
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Paper was in very short supply during WW2. I have several books from the period which say they are made to the paper utility standard or something similar. I also remember my mother saying that everyone saved all paper including bus tickets.

Shellac was also in short supply. I have seen public information films urging people to return records for recycling.
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Maybe they wanted the paper to recycle as post war cards like this one I found in the back of a set.
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I believe it was illegal to dispose of writing paper of which only one side had been used.
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We were told to use both sides of the paper in school books during the 1950s too. Probably a hangover from WWII.
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How much of WW2 Electronic surplus was recycled repurposed after the war, so it goes around in a circle. recycle, repurpose.
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The teacher at my infant school said that when she was a pupil she had to use each side of a piece of paper twice with the second lot of writing being at right angles to the first.

She was in her seventies and had been brought out of retirement because few teachers were trained during WW2 and they needed someone to teach baby boomers. Her own education must have taken place in the late 19th century.
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