This document is a modern transcription of a small portion of Confidential Admiralty Fleet Order 437 from the year 1940. It concerns the allocation of helmets for High Angle Director Tower crews. The original file is held at the Royal Naval Library at the Royal Navy Base, Portsmouth. This Crown Copyrighted material is reproduced here by kind permission of the Royal Navy Library.

C.A.F.O. 437.–Helmets for Protection From Blast–REPORTS

(N.S./G. 8479/39.–8.2.1940)

154 helmets for protection from blast are being purchased by Portsmouth and on receipt will be issued to the undermentioned ships for use of H.A. director tower crews.

2. The question of extending supply to other personnel is under consideration.

3. A report on the helmets should be forwarded in due course.

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