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The Morrison shelter, officially termed Table (Morrison) Indoor Shelter, had a cage-like construction beneath it. It was designed by John Baker and named after Herbert Morrison, the Minister of Home Security at the time. It was the result of the realisation that due to the lack of house cellars it was necessary to develop an effective type of ...
The Morrison shelter was therefore designed to be able to withstand the upper floor falling, of a typical two-storey-house undergoing a partial collapse. The shelter was designed to absorb this energy by plastic deformation, since this can absorb two or three orders of magnitude more energy than elastic deformation. [ 10 ]
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The building that was once home to a transient hotel known as the Morrison Hotel was the setting for cover photo for the band’s … Downtown L.A. ‘Morrison Hotel’ Building Made Famous By ...
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By the time of the raid, Nottingham had built a significant number of public shelters. The John Player & Sons tobacco company had built a network of tunnels at its factory and under local streets sufficient to house around 5,000 of its workers. The raid on the night of 8–9 May by the Luftwaffe was targeted at Nottingham and Derby.
The museum holds a large collection of medals, with records regarding the involvement of people within the Leicester Regiment, which can be accessed via a computer. A model trench sits on the first floor. Other items include a Morrison Shelter and gas masks to reflect the Home Front during the Second World War.
The voter-approved MAPS 4 program included $42 million toward construction of a new building for intake, adoption and care of animals by the city's animal welfare department.