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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 610837, member: 66&quot;]The unlimited gas rationing sticker was the X sticker.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This was why during the war there was a crash program to devlop synthetic rubber and to build production plants.&nbsp; This resulted in the rationing of another another product.&nbsp; Soap chips were used as an emulsifying agent in the production of synthetic rubber. So soap was rationed.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is one small error on that US-History site.&nbsp; Under recycling there was no such thing at the time as an aluminum can.&nbsp; The cans being recycled were steel cans commonly called tin cans.</p><p><br /></p><p>No one has ever found an official explaination for the check letters.&nbsp; When a request was made from the government in the 1970&#039;s&nbsp; for an explaination it was refused on the&nbsp; grounds of national security.&nbsp; Unfortunately the Osbourne Corporation who made the tokens has disposed of their records.&nbsp; personally I think the two rare combinations MM and MV are rare because they are errors.&nbsp; If you chart out the letter combinations they form a nice simple patter, except for the MM and MV.&nbsp; These are the only two combinations that start with M.&nbsp; ALL of the double letter combinations (CC HH etc) are blue tokens with the exception of the MM.&nbsp; There is one obviously missing blue combination WV.&nbsp; I think the M&#039;s were supposed to be W&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And long afterwards.&nbsp; Britain did not finally fully emerge from the rationing system until the late 1950&#039;s</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a specialized group that&nbsp; deals with the collecting of ration tokens and other related material, The Society of Ration Token Collectors.</p><p><a href="http://www.allbusiness.com/membership-organizations/membership-organizations/4044002-1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.allbusiness.com/membership-organizations/membership-organizations/4044002-1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.allbusiness.com/membership-organizations/membership-organizations/4044002-1.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://collectingclubs.com/Show_Club.asp?ID=374&amp;fmt=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://collectingclubs.com/Show_Club.asp?ID=374&amp;fmt=1" rel="nofollow">http://collectingclubs.com/Show_Club.asp?ID=374&amp;fmt=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure which of those is current which is bad considering I&#039;m a member.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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