A small archive of material relating to the London 1948 Olympic Games, believed to have originally been from the office of Arthur Elvin the owner of W
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A small archive of material relating to the London 1948 Olympic Games, believed to have originally been from the office of Arthur Elvin the owner of Wembley Stadium and including a copy of a letter from him dated 18th May 1948 writing to Lord Portal expressing his dismay of a poorly organised athletics meeting at White City which had been billed beforehand as a 'Pre Olympics Games Try-Out', thereby giving pressmen a field day, the archive mostly of press cuttings but also Olympic Bulletins, a forecast for lost ticket revenues at Wembley Stadium through the issue of complimentary seat tickets to dignitaries, competitors, press, BBC, choir and bands, calculated to be a loss of potential revenue through ticket sales of £41,293; also a general regulations programme not illustrated