HC Deb 22 January 1947 vol 432 c48W
81. Colonel Ropner

asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he is aware that blankets, mattresses, accumulators, stirrup pumps, scientific instruments, bedsteads, bicycles, baths and other goods are lying in the open and deteriorating at Marston Moor aerodrome; and whether he will take steps to stop this waste of property, much of which is in short supply for the public.

Mr. P. Noel-Baker

At the R.A.F. Equipment Disposals Depot at Marston Moor, over 5,000 different pieces of equipment, amounting to 100 tons, are handled every day. I think it is true that some bundles of disused blackout material were by inadvertence left out in the rain, but I can assure the hon. and gallant Gentleman that no other serviceable stores, liable to deteriorate, are kept in the open.

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