NEW FASHION
TIN HATS
EVERY THIRD INHABITANT OF
BRITAIN
One inhabitant of Britain in every three lias got a tin hat now that 2,700,000 of a new type have been added to the 14,000,000 already supplied to the lighting forces, the Home Guard, the civil Defence Services, fire-watchers and industrial workers.
The latest stylo, -which is for lire.vatehers and industrial workers, is shapyd like a pudding dish. It lias bee if designed by the Ministry of Suppty with an adjustable band in-, side the rim to lit trimly over a woman's hair without a chin strap. The band is adjusted by a shoe lace threaded through holes drilled in the rim. Tin hzivs have reached the enormous total of 1 (>,700,000 because, by a simple engineering process they can lie stamped out from sheet meta! in one single pi ess operation, -which produces the hat from the die. The subsequent drilling and finishing is an easy job, quickly done.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 167, 13 October 1941, Page 3
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159NEW FASHION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 167, 13 October 1941, Page 3
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