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Volume of papers and reports 1936-1947

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Papers on the smoke abatement movement, collected into a file:
"Domestic Heating in Great Britain" by A Parker, C.B.E., D.Sc., November 1947
'The Testing of Solid-Fuel Domestic Appliances' by E A C Chamberlain, Ph.D., D.I.C., B.Sc., and J A Toole, December 1946
"Comparison Between Continuous Burning Space Heater and Normal Stool-Bottom Open Fire", August, 1943
"Arrangement of Semi-detached Post-war House of the Three Bedroom - One Living Room Type with Heating and Ventilation from the Benllech Hearth", c1940s
"The Scientific Control of Combusion" by J W Young, A.M.I. Mech.Eng., A.I.E.E., M.Inst.Fuel., 1943 (with illustrated figures)
"Comparitive Costs of Gas and Electricity for Domestic Use in Low-Cost Housing", April 1936
"City of Manchester Technical Committee on District Heating: Report", April 1945
"The Economic Spheres of Alternative Methods of Space and Water Heating by Sollid Fuel Appliances, Gas, Electricity and District Heating" by Donald V. H. Smith, M.I.E.S., M.I.H.V.E., M.Inst.F., December 1945

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