Ration Collection

Advert for Horlicks ration of malted milk tablets 1916
Restoring energy and vitality Horlicks malted milk compressed tablets, supplied in a air tight tin. 1916

Ration Book July 1942
A Ministry of Food ration book issued in July 1942, to be returned if lost to the Greenwich food office

Ww2 Clothing Coupons
Two CLOTHING BOOKS containing coupons without which you couldn t buy clothes : note the date - two years after the end of the war !

Advert for Dolcis shoes, shopping with five coupons 1941
With five wartime coupons you could buy one pair of shoes from Dolcis. Casual shoes with contrasting coloures with a crepe sole and side lace. Casual shoes with 3 eyelette tie at front in suede

Desclieux / Coffee Plant
Captain Gabriel Mathieu Desclieux, a French Navy Officer, uses his water ration to save a single coffee plant which instigated the entire Martinique Coffee Industry

Your sugar ration is 2 lbs. per month. Poster showing sacks of sugar, comparing Americas voluntary ration to the compulsory rations of 2 pounds in England, just over a pound in France

Ration Cards WWII
People queuing for temporary ration cards during World War II

Rations & Ration Book
A ration book with rations for a week, including four rashers of bacon, one egg and a quantity of sugar and fat

WWII - the man who eats grass, Mr J. R. B. Branson
Mr J. R. B. Branson, who advocated a diet of grass to counter food shortages during the Second World War. The Bystander magazine ran a double page spread on him

WW2, Ration Book Christmas Card
A WW2 Christmas greetings card designed as a ration book, offering best wishes free of charge, and unlimited rations inside. Date: 1940

WW2 Birthday Card, Rationed Clothes
An illustrated WW2 birthday greetings card, clothes may be rationed - but let me tell you, there's no shortage of birthday wishes

WW2 Birthday Card, Queue Of Bees
An illustrated WW2 birthday greetings card, Even if a queue were a mile long, I'd join it to wish you a happy birthday

RMS Queen Mary, lifeboat emergency ration tin
RMS QUEEN MARY: Lifeboat emergency ration tin, identical to Queen Mary ration tins sold previously. 7ins. 2ins

WW2 Scouts And Guides
This illustration portrays a British WW2 boy scout and girl guide, these young people helped Britain in the war effort performing roles including hospital assistance, making ration bags

Advert for Celanese, a chemical and speciality materials company whose products included acetate yarn and artificial silk. Date: 1943

Way to Increase your Greengage Jam Ration
Owing to the short supply of sugar, it was necessary to cut down the amount used in the jam production. Illustrated by William Heath Robinson showing inside a jam factory where every part of

Rational Gadgets For Your Coupons by William Heath Robinson
Customers are put on scales to determine how much butter they are entitled to, the heavier the person is, the more butter they are given. Date: 1940

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - No Basic, we should worry
The Caption is No Basic? We should worry! Basic refers to the basic petrol ration. Petrol was rationed from September 1939 and contiinued until 1950. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: circa 1944

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Oh, I do like a bit of butter
The ironic Caption is Oh! I do like a bit of butter on my bread. The weekly butter ration per person was 2 oz - 56 grams. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: circa 1944

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Happy Birthday
The ration book is clearly drawn, and cancelled coupons can be glimpsed. Petrol was the first to be rationed after the war began and eventually practically all commodities were

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Swell
Clothes wee rationed from June 1941 wth a ration book supposedly sufficient for one new outfit a year. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1945

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Food Flash
The caption on the postcard is Food Flash. The girls are talking about the latest rationing news. In 1942 even sweets were rationed. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1944

Cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather in the style of Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Showing British soldiers making sandbags, bringing in ration supplies and ready to fight in the trenches. Date: 1916

Laying up your car in wartime, 1942
Laying up your car? Some practical hints and tips, article by Alan Hess in Britannia & Eve, May 1942. The basic petrol ration was withdrawn at this time, leading many motorists to store their cars

Women queuing for ration books, WW2
Women queuing outside a Food Office for ration books at the beginning of the Second World War. 1939

Inside of ration book for motor spirit, September 1939
Coupons for petrol found inside a ration book issued by Surrey County Council, 5 September 1939. Petrol rations were based on the horsepower of a vehicle

Motor spirit ration book front cover, September 1939
Front cover of a ration book for motor spirit, issued by Surrey County Council on 5 September 1939, shortly after the outbreak of war

Knitted womens cardigans 1940
Page from a magazine showing two models wearing knitted cardigans. With the onset of World War Two and the introduction of rationing, many chose to knit their own clothes as a cheaper alternative

Knitted swim wear 1940
Page from a magazine showing a model wearing a knitted bikini. Date: 1940

Woolly step-ins & dressy jumper 1940 Woolly step-ins & dressy jumper 1940
Womens clothing in wool with stitch pattern. Date: 1940

Cuneiform tablet depicting beer allocation. 2351-2342 BC. From Girsu. Uruinimgina King. British Museum. London

National Id Card 1940S
During World War Two, everyone had to carry their Identity Card at all times. Date: 1940s

WW1 poster, Save the Nations Bread
WW1 Ministry of Food poster, Waste not want not, Save the Nations Bread, national ration four pounds each per week. Date: circa 1915-1918

Ration Card
Ration card for one months provision of bread or flour

A (Y)appy Idea! by William Heath Robinson, WWI rationing
The Ventrimetric System: Rational weights and measures for use in hotels, restaurants, and clubs for the limitation of appetites

D-Day invasion ration pack
The contents of the 24-hour ration pack which was to be carried by every combatant in the anticipated Allied invasion of the continent. These were to be carried in a small waterproof box

British soldier eating rations at the Front, WW1
Tommys Salle A Manger at the Front. Dinner-time in a British trench where the soldiers dining room with tapestried with mud and carpeted with muddy water. Date: 1915

Down at the Ration Dump by Bruce Bairnsfather
Down at the Ration Dump " Call me a Tank again, my lad, and I ll knock yer - - ead off!" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1917

British officers relaxing, Western Front, WW1
Four British army officers relaxing behind the lines on the Western Front during World War One. Their chairs are made from ration boxes. Date: circa 1916

WW2 - Shortage of Potatoes in Britain during the War
Sorry No Potatoes - a British housewife has limited choice for her vegetable purchasing, as potato stocks dry up due to tight rationing control over supply - December, 1941. Date: 1941

WW1 - League of National Safety - set up to promote the value of rationing, the efforts to avoid wastage, to further the objects of the Food Economy Campaign

Howitzer shell, Iron Ration, WW1
A 15 inch Howitzer shell on the ground, during the First World War, with the ironic words Iron Ration painted on it. Date: 1914-1918

German ration card WWI
German bread ration card from Munich, Germany during World War I

Milk for school children, 1955
Before Margaret Thatcher the milk snatcher put and end to free school milk for the over sevens, all primary school children would enjoy their daily third pint ration at school

Victorian Scrap - army meat rations. late 19th century

British Food Rationing, First World War, 1918
Diagram showing the weekly butchers meat ration allowed for an adult (with children receiving half the amount). Rationing was introduced at the end of World War One when ships carrying food

Compo ration dump and men carrying more supplies
Lantern slide showing a compo ration dump and men carrying more supplies to it, March 1943.From a collection of British official war photographs relating to the 78th Division that were given to

Meat ration distribution, Bura Camp, Kenya, WW1
Personnel gather round to share out the meat ration at Bura Camp, Kenya, East Africa, during WW1. 1915

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