Abstract
SOME months before the outbreak of war, the British Standards Institution offered the Government its services, as a complete unit, in the national emergency. This offer, which was sent to the Board of Trade, through which the Institution receives its Government grant, was cordially received. On the outbreak of war, the Institution set up a number of small executive committees for the various sections of ite work, these being made fully responsible for the preparation of any war emergency specifications required. A statement has now been issued outlining the Institution's recent activities. The Institution has been invited to send a representative to appropriate meetings of the Materials Committee of the Production Executive, which is representative of all Government departments, the Central Priority Department acting as the liaison between that Committee and the Institution. The first issue of the War Emergency Specifications for Tins and Cans for food products and other commodities is estimated to have saved 40,000 tons of steel in the first year, while it is estimated that the War Emergency Specification for Bolts and Nuts with smaller heads will save many thousands of tons of steel a year.
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British Standards Institution. Nature 147, 603 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147603a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147603a0