RAF Station book/Form 540

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  1. tony philpot

    tony philpot Spitfire boy

    Sorry i hope that i have posted in the correct place. A friend of mine wants to know if anybody knows what would have been written on an original RAF station book / form 540. Reason being he is having the RAF Eastchurch station book re-made for them and I would like to try and get it as close as possible. thanks for any help you can give...
     
  2. RAFCommands

    RAFCommands Senior Member

  3. tony philpot

    tony philpot Spitfire boy

    sorry i should have said was what would have been written on the front outside cover of an original RAF station book / form 540 and how would it of been set out
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  4. RAFCommands

    RAFCommands Senior Member

    540 was a loose leaf double sided form.

    During wartime it was not given a cover - this was only done for AHB preservation post war.

    As a Secret Document the Station HQ file copies would have been held along with the other Confidential Books under a Secret wrapper.

    See image at time stamp 00:24
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    Ross
     
  5. tony philpot

    tony philpot Spitfire boy

    so what did the AHB preservation post war cover look like?
     
  6. RAFCommands

    RAFCommands Senior Member

    My previous answer - look at the preserved copy at the TNA

    copy attached
     

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    Last edited: Mar 15, 2018
  7. tony philpot

    tony philpot Spitfire boy

    Thank you Ross,but do you not have an image for this? obviously the reason i am asking for my friend is that he does not have a computer or no how to use one.
     
  8. RAFCommands

    RAFCommands Senior Member

    The orb does not need a computer or knowledge of computer to look at.

    It is available at TNA for all to see in person as per my previous
     
  9. tony philpot

    tony philpot Spitfire boy

    Thank you again Ross for all your assistance.
     
  10. PsyWar.Org

    PsyWar.Org Archive monkey

    The AHB bound ORBs typically have a plain dark blue bookcloth hard binding with a dark red/bugandy leather label on the spine, with goldleaf title. The endpapers a sort of plain buff colour.

    The binding makes copying them damned hard work.
     
  11. tony philpot

    tony philpot Spitfire boy

    Thank you very much for this added information.
     

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