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| Rationing was introduced at different stages for various commodities on both a national and local scale. |
| Food ration books for every man, woman and child came into use on the 8 January 1940. |
| The Mersey ferry Royal Daffodil evacuated 7,461 service personnel from Dunkirk, in five trips between May 28 and June 2, 1940. |
| In 1935, the government decided to supplement facilities at the historic Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich, south-east London, with a new armaments plant on a site that would be less exposed to air attack. The chosen site was at Chorley, Lancashire. |
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