Anderson shelter

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 503 words | Copyright

Anderson shelter, standard British garden bomb shelter erected by bolting together two curved walls of corrugated galvanized steel in a 3 ft. (.91 m.) pit and then covering them with earth. Designed by William Paterson it was named after the Lord Privy Seal, John Anderson, who was given special responsibility for British civil defence (seeUK, 6) in 1938. Two million were issued free during the early months of the war until a shortage of steel led to their being discontinued.

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