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Wartime production at Barrow / interview with V H Crozier, 1920-1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Vickers Doc 596

Scope and Contents

Interview with V H Crozier on Barrow between the wars; wartime and late-1940s production statistics at Barrow. Subjects covered: Vickers-Armstrongs Barrow works James-McKechnie Charles-Craven P&O rearmament World-War-II statistics ship engine submarine mining turbine gun.

Dates: 1920-1950

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Vickers Ltd: Records / Documents and photographs

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Wartime ration book, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7351/1/1/355

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Dicken's National Ration Book from the Ministry of Food, issued 26 October 1918 (at f. 231r).

Dates: 1918

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Admiral Dicken: Memoirs and papers / Memoirs and related papers / Memoirs

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Wartime regulations and notes, 1940 - 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 40/5

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Regulations and notes covering the conduct and activities of staff at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, during the Second World War, including aspects of war duty. The entries are arranged alphabetically, and begin with an address list. There are a number of loose items. The volume is initialled H.W.N. on the cover, probably referring to H.W. Newton, who was in charge of the Observatory at this time, and who is mentioned in a note on the inside cover.

Dates: 1940 - 1946

Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives / Rules and Regulations

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Wartime reports and documents, 1938 - 1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RVJO B.1-B.215

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collections comprises correspondence; papers relating to awards and honours; wartime documents including copies of the Air Scientific Intelligence reports he wrote during WWII, copies of intelligence reports he received, and captured German documents; papers relating to Jones' research topics and scientific interests; publications; conferences, lectures, and speeches.

Dates: 1938 - 1982

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.

Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Reginald Victor Jones / Second World War

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Wartime Reports and Miscellaneous, 1945 - 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEAT 34

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection consists solely of Feather's scientific papers and contains original experimental records and calculations, correspondence with other scientists, unpublished wartime reports and offprints of published papers.

Dates: 1945 - 1977

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Boxes 1-46, Acc.660/1-4 and most of Acc.1505 are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Professor Norman Feather

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Wartime shipbuilding, 1942-1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Vickers Doc 753

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Correspondence with the Admiralty concerning wartime production of ships for the Royal Navy, 1942-45. Subjects covered: ship Vickers-Armstrongs Barrow Naval-Yard World-War-II Royal-Navy submarine.

Dates: 1942-1945

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Vickers Ltd: Records / Documents and photographs

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Wartime Spain, 1938-1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8251/IV

Scope and Contents Reports and related papers prepared or collected by Grant, some produced by staff at the Foreign Research and Press Service, Balliol College, Oxford / Chatham House, later the Foreign Office Research Department, Whitehall, c. 1938-45. Cyclostyled and typescript, many carbon copies. c. 420 pp. Including: Grant, 'The background and significance of the Spanish conflict', [c. 1938]; 'Note on position with regard to raw materials in Spain 1914-18', 6 Oct. 1939 (?);...

Dates: 1938-1945

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Letters in Section VI: General Correspondence, are restricted for fifty years.

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Correspondence and Papers of Helen Frances Grant (1903-1992), Lecturer in Spanish at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Girton College

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Wartime speeches, 1940 - 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WCHL 3/16

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Set of 12" 78rpm gramophone records of broadcast speeches by WSC, issued by the Gramophone Company Limited on the His Master's Voice [HMV] label.

Dates: 1940 - 1942

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Closures are noted in the catalogue.

Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / Other Deposited Collections Relating to Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill's Recorded Speeches

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Wartime staff of the Greek Section of the BBC's European Service, 1948 - 1997

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Duke 1/31/6

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P. 14 of the Greek Gazette, May 1995, showing a 1948 photograph of 'the wartime staff of the Greek Section of the BBC's European Service', including Alison Duke, Military Liaison, Greece and UNRA; together with related letters from Alix MacSweeney (nee Jameson, Girton 1957), 1997. Also pp 7-10 of the Greek Gazette, October 1979, containing the same photograph showing Alison Duke, together with a related letter from George Angeloglou, 29 November 1979.

Dates: 1948 - 1997

Found in: Girton College Archive / Personal Papers / Personal Papers of Alison Duke / Personal and Biographical / Photographs

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Wartime subjects, 1939-1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/C2/9

Scope and Contents Meynell's file 'War correspondence'. It includes correspondence (mostly carbon copies of outgoing letters) with Alan Barlow, E. Boumphrey, R. A. Butler, Ramon Casanova, Bennett Cerf, P. J. (?) Hancock, Marion Hegarty, Shade (Mrs. Keiller), Robin Kilroy, George Macy, Robert Mennell, P. Messmer, National Council for Civil Liberties, Francis Ogilvy, Hans Popper, Olivia Sowerby, and Alan Steyne. With the letters are some typescript memoranda recording anecdotes and diary entries, and a...

Dates: 1939-1944

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of Francis Meynell / Correspondence / Correspondence by subject

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Wartime visitors' book, 1943-11-21 - 1944-07-23

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/USOC 4/7

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Consists of records of membership subscriptions, including affiliate and associate members, and photographs of committee members and special events.

Dates: 1943-11-21 - 1944-07-23

Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Cambridge University Archives / Student administration and support records / Archives of the Cambridge Union Society / Membership records

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Wartime work, 1925 - 1978

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LDBA 1

Scope and Contents

Includes: Ministry of Home Security papers on design of air raid shelters; Home Office Civil Defence Research Committee minutes; Department of Scientific and Industrial Research papers on alternative construction methods; papers on bombing trials for shelters and on protection for factories and offices; road research reports; data on damage to reinforced concrete and steel framed buildings; report on damage at Hiroshima and Nagasaki [Japan].

Dates: 1925 - 1978

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of a few files, which are still closed (details are available in the catalogue), the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Baron Baker of Windrush

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Wartime Work on Hydrocarbons

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8353 B.4-B.13

Scope and Contents From the Series: Early Infrared Research consists chiefly of correspondence and research material c.1931 - 48. Most of the correspondence was originally kept by Sutherland in 4 alphabetical box files and although it is not all 'scientific correspondence' in the strictest sense, it provides an interesting overall picture of Sutherland's career and research during this period. With the exception of Sutherland's Ph.D. thesis (B.1) there are no working papers or laboratory notes until the war time period. B.4 -...

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some items are restricted at the discretion of the Keeper of Manuscripts

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Sir Gordon Sutherland: Correspondence and Papers / Early Infrared Research

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Wartime Work on Penicillin

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8353 B.14-B.29

Scope and Contents From the Series: Early Infrared Research consists chiefly of correspondence and research material c.1931 - 48. Most of the correspondence was originally kept by Sutherland in 4 alphabetical box files and although it is not all 'scientific correspondence' in the strictest sense, it provides an interesting overall picture of Sutherland's career and research during this period. With the exception of Sutherland's Ph.D. thesis (B.1) there are no working papers or laboratory notes until the war time period. B.4 -...

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some items are restricted at the discretion of the Keeper of Manuscripts

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Sir Gordon Sutherland: Correspondence and Papers / Early Infrared Research

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Warusha, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/47

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Showing two Warusha men. The caption continues: 'these two warriors showed me all the likely places where crocodiles were. Arusha Chinia [i.e. Arusha Chini]'.

Dates: 1934

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Journey from East to West Africa 1934

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Warusha, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/87

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Showing a Warusha woman with a number of goats. A caption below the photographs reads: 'The Wahwavi and Warusha copy Masai in dress'.

Dates: 1934

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Journey from East to West Africa 1934

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Warusha, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/95

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Showing three women seated on the ground.

Dates: 1934

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Journey from East to West Africa 1934

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Warusha, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/96

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Showing a woman in front of a thatched house.

Dates: 1934

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Journey from East to West Africa 1934

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Warusha, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/97

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Showing a woman carrying a large bunch of bananas on her head.

Dates: 1934

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Journey from East to West Africa 1934

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Warusha, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/98

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A head and shoulders portrait of a woman.

Dates: 1934

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Journey from East to West Africa 1934

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Warusha, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/99

Scope and Contents

A full-length portrait of a woman.

Dates: 1934

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Journey from East to West Africa 1934

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Warusha, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/100

Scope and Contents

A portrait of a woman from the waist up.

Dates: 1934

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Journey from East to West Africa 1934

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Warusha, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/101

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A portrait of a woman from the waist up.

Dates: 1934

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Journey from East to West Africa 1934

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[Warusha boy], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/53

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Showing a boy holding a small snake. The caption reads: 'This snake became entangled in my legs when I was bathing in the furrow'.

Dates: 1934

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Journey from East to West Africa 1934

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[Warusha girl], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/55A

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A professional photograph of a Warusha girl. The photograph is signed 'G. Eric Matson'.

Dates: 1934

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Journey from East to West Africa 1934

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Wartime production at Barrow / interview with V H Crozier, 1920-1950

Wartime ration book, 1918

Wartime regulations and notes, 1940 - 1946

Wartime reports and documents, 1938 - 1982

Wartime Reports and Miscellaneous, 1945 - 1977

Wartime shipbuilding, 1942-1945

Wartime Spain, 1938-1945

Wartime speeches, 1940 - 1942

Wartime staff of the Greek Section of the BBC's European Service, 1948 - 1997

Wartime subjects, 1939-1944

Wartime visitors' book, 1943-11-21 - 1944-07-23

Wartime work, 1925 - 1978

Wartime Work on Hydrocarbons

Wartime Work on Penicillin

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Warusha, 1934

Warusha, 1934

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