Government warehouse

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This article is about normal government owned or operated warehouses, for the entity of conspiracy theories or the plot device used in fiction, see Government Warehouse.

A government warehouse is a warehouse owned or operated by a government, for such purposes as storage of goods that are passing through customs, storage of impounded property, or storage of supplies and equipment.

[edit] Famous government warehouses

• Ford's Theatre was used as a government warehouse from 1893 to 1931.
• The Military Government Warehouse was used for storage of property seized by the United States Army on 1945-05-16 from a train in Werfen, Austria, the so-called "Gold Train".

[edit] Further reading

• JPL OFFERS SURPLUS COMPUTERS TO SOUTHLAND CLASSROOMS. Retrieved on August 10, 2005. — The Jet Propulsion Laboratory makes surplus equipment available from a government warehouse
• Briefing by Art Research Staff to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States on the "Hungarian Gold Train". Retrieved on August 10, 2005.

• Procedure Codes. Ethiopian Customs Guidelines for Traders. Retrieved on May 26, 2005. — Procedures relating to government warehouses in Ethiopia
• THE EAST AFRICAN CUSTOMS MANAGEMENT ACT CAP 77 OF 1970 AS ADOPTED BY DECREE NO 13 OF 1977 WITH SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS. Uganda Revenue Authority. Retrieved on May 26, 2005. — Legislation relating to government warehouses in Uganda
• Memorandum No. 90-34 MAJOR PURCHASING AND SUPPLY REFORMS. ALEXANDRIA WAREHOUSE. Retrieved on May 26, 2005. — A memorandum relating to a government warehouses in New South Wales, Australia
• "Looting in Baghdad", The Guardian, 2003-04-09.  — A picture of people removing things from an Iraqi government warehouse