Where can i get a copy of a WW2 ration book? I need one for a 1940s theme evening for charit?

Answer 1

http://www.worldwar2exraf.co.uk/Online%20Museum/Large%20photo%20pages/ffodrationbbokfront.html

Answer 2

Ration Book Template

Answer 3

Printable Ration Book

Answer 4

WW2 Ration Books - with any luck you should be able to print out a page from one of these sites and make up a facsimily of a Ration Book.

Sorry to say my last Rashion Book was thrown onto the bonfire sometime back in the early 1950s when finally we got off rashions and got fat again.

My mum very sensibly swapped our sweet ration coupons with the neighbours for their clothing cupons. We was better dressed than them, see!

World War II - Home Front - Ration Books - 1942 - 1945Pictures, scans, text of War Ration Book One, Two, Three, Four issued between 1942 and 1945 by Office of Price Administration, Local Board 18-19-20, ...
http://www.eubank-web.com/donald/aleutian/rbook1.htm

World War II Ration Book and StampsWorld War II Ration Book, 1942 Courtesy, Private Collection. When nationwide food rationing was instituted in the spring of 1942, every New Jersey housewife ...
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_5/ration.htm

BBC - h2g2 - World War Two Rationing in Britain Created: 23rd May 2001. World War Two Rationing in Britain ... Ration books were issued to each person containing tokens which could be saved up or used at ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A533918


My Notes: beware of Nazi forgeries of British Rashion Books. These have secretely been circulated in the East End of London by Nazi spies some of whom are working as barrow boys. You'll know who these people are, they usually have a sign up which reads, "as seen on TV" - don't touch what you can't afford, sonny!

Finally, a word from Captain Mainwaring CO Home Guard Warmington-on-sea "there are no German boats in the English Channel, Pike".


Vintage 1941!

Answer 5

I have several, all with my name on them and they are not going anywhere. It is not that they have any dollar value, it is the fact that we had to play with paper mache toys and do without a lot of things because things went to the war effort.

They (the government) even came by my house and collected all of the aluminum pots and pans, leaving us with only cast iron utensils. They even attempted to mine bauxite in my grandmother's back yard in Chattanooga and they came and collected cans of bacon grease.

I don't know if most would remember the little stamped paper coins that we had for rationing also. They were about the size of a dime, but I don't know what they were used for.

All we had to play with was a hickory nut and a rock and we had to eat one of those for dinner.

Answer 6

I have one, my late mums, even got her ID card, and munitions worker card, but I don't want to get rid of them.

However we used to buy some for school trip around Gosport, they are for sale on line.

Dont bother with the - The Blitz Replica Memorabilia Pack - £5.99
As it contains general advice info leaflet on gas attacks, cooking after a Blitz pamphlet, ARP booklet, Air raid letter, miscellaneous trade cards, body tag, photographic images of the Blitz, After the Raid advice leaflet, fire precaution leaflet. - but no ration cards

go for the - Home Front Replica Memorabilia Pack - £5.99
Contains: Household leaflets on repairs, fuel saving and healthy eating advice, Railings receipt, Clothing ration book, Chart of gases, miscellaneous cards and informative bus tickets, War Emergency leaflet, government postcard images, disease information booklet.

we used to get the kids dressed up in replica clothes, with a name tag on them, and thier gas mask, from an visiting van, then they would be evacuated for the day, by train and bus (old bus) to the submarine museum and Explosion, the museum of ammunition, in Gosport. They looked so cute, with brown paper boxes and old suitcases.

I used to dress as an ARP warden and meet them off the godsport ferry. I miss that job lol.

Answer 7

Look at the results of this Google Image search....

http://images.google.com/images?q=WWII+ration+book&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADBF&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Answer 8

I've still got my last one but I'm keeping it. Try the ImperialWar Museum web site.

Answer 9

Try the history section in a library.

Answer 10

I remember those. My mother had ration books for everything during the war.

Answer 11

try ebay. you may be able to pick up an origional