The Archive · 1938

Swedish A.R.P. Train

Goes on Tour Travelling Exhibition to — Instruct Populace

Stockholm, Nov. 11.

An "ARP. train" has just started On a tour of Sweden to teach the inhabitants how to act in the event Of an air raid.

The train houses an exhibition organized in Stockholm in connection with the complete "black-out" imposed in the capital and some other towns recently. It has now been decided to give provincial towns an opportunity to see the exhibits.

The material to be exhibited was taken up by four railway coaches, and the intention is to give displays at 71 towns and villages throughout the country, from the far north to the extreme south.

The exhibits consist of gas-masks and gas-proof costumes, models of anti-aircraft, plans of shelters, and many other devices for use or protection in air raids—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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