Anderson shelter
English
editEtymology
editNamed after Sir John Anderson, who initiated the development of the shelter.
Noun
editAnderson shelter (plural Anderson shelters)
- An air-raid shelter made from curved and straight galvanised corrugated steel panels.
- 1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 313:
- The now familiar Anderson air-raid shelter, officially described as "the galvanised corrugated steel shelter," was manufactured in sections by numbers of firms in different parts of the country.