Make old Met Office HMSO publications available as PDF downloads

Now that the Met Office has automated a lot of its data collection, I have the impression that amateurs are being cut adrift.

E.g. I do not believe that the "Observer's Handbook" is published anymore, and it is almost impossible to find the plans for building a "Stevenson's Screen"

These and many other classic works are only available to those few lucky enough to live in Exeter, or who can afford the exorbitant fees required to access them through reprints of scientific journals.

For example, E.G. Bilham's classic papers: "An apparatus for the determination of height when the pressure and temperature are known." ; " An azimuthal method measuring cloud height with a searchlight. "; " Dew-point tables - A new procedure. ";" A humidity slide rule. ";" A screen for sheathed thermometers. "

While many of these have been superceded by technology, it is of great importance to an amateur who wishes to understand the origins and thinking behind these topics.

It would not take a lot of resource to provide all the M.O. publications from, say, 1960 backwards, as pdf files.  I'll bet volunteers could be found to do the scanning - I would for a start!.