London Blitz

The ferocity of the London Blitz, the threat of invasion and the possible occupation of Ireland by the enemy (which meant that Aberystwyth could no longer be considered safe) demanded more secure and secret accommodation for the artefacts now rendered increasingly vulnerable. To the War Cabinet secure and secret meant underground, and a search was immediately instituted for suitably remote sites. 

MINOR chapters (13), 14, 21, (22), 25 - 28. November-December, 1940. During the London Blitz, Scotland Yard detective Morris Black searches for a serial killer who may be a German spy. The character Jane Luffington is based on Fleming s real girlfriend Muriel Wright. 

Blitz, J. Electrical Magnetic Methods of Nondestructive Testing, Institute of Physics Publishing, London, UK. 1991. 

Blitz, J., Ultrasonics Methods and Applications, Butterworths, London, 1971. 

Soon after this, Cockren was killed in the blitz of London, and his secret perished with him. He left many who believed in the curative powers of his oil of gold. Mrs. Maiya Tranchell Hayes, who headed a surviving temple of the Golden Dawn, swore by it, as did Mrs. Meyer Sassoon, widow of a well-known financier. As late as 1965 there were elderly people in London who still took small doses of Cockren s elixir. 

He gathered around him men with a similar determination. The eminent British biologist Lord Stamp, for example, joined the team in 1941 earlier, in April of that year he succeeded to the family tide when his father, mother and brother were all killed in the Blitz. I felt useless where I was, at the Public Health Laboratory, he remembers today, and I was determined to pay back the Germans for what they did, and to see that our country was not left defenceless as London was when my family was killed. 30... 

Simon had never trusted the mails. He trusted them even less at the height of the Blitz. He duplicated some forty copies of his report, accumulated enough rationed gasoline for a round trip and shortly before Christmas drove from Oxford into bomb-threatened London to deliver the fruit of half a year s hard work, his whole force in the struggle for his country, to G. P. Thomson. 

J. Blitz, Fundamentals of Ultrasonics, 2nd ed., Butterworth, London, 1967, Chap. 8. 

J. Blitz, ed., Ultrasonic Methods of Testing Materials, Butterworth Publishers, Ltd., London, 1966. 

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