From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 25/06/2018 19:50, MB wrote:   
   > On 25/06/2018 17:19, John Hill wrote:   
   >> When I think of all the fuss there was over the failed ID card venture a   
   >> few years ago, the original national issue in 1939 was organised with   
   >> extreme dispatch and no fuss over human rights, privacy and whatnot.   
   >   
   > A few years ago I got a reprint of a history of rationing that was   
   > reprinted by the IWM.  Very interesting description of what was a   
   > complicated system.   
   >   
   > It made me wonder whether the present day civil service would be capable   
   > of organising such a complex system?  They would be sure to want to use   
   > computers and it would end up a complete mess whilst the WWII system ran   
   > with little pieces of paper.   
   >   
      
   Strictly speaking it ran on little bits of card!  Though they may have   
   used Hollerith machines to help with the number crunching.   
      
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