Correspondence relating to applications by Middlesex County Cricket Club for buying cricket equipment for local clubs, arranged with MCC and the Board of Trade. Subjects include arrangements for advertisements for cricket equipment to be published in local newspapers, copy of press release issued by the Board of Trade in 1942 relating to the rationing of sports equipment due to the Second World War, table of applications from local cricket clubs to Middlesex for cricket equipment, letters from the Board of Trade informing Middlesex that local cricket clubs had approached them directly regarding requests for cricket equipment, letter from the Board of Trade confirming the allocation of cricket equipment donated to Middlesex in 1946.