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HE IS A FIREMAN TOYS FROM BLITZ WRECKAGE Motor lorries will rattle out of London on Christmas E!ve with a great freight of 2000 toys for the children of women on war work who are being cared for at Nursery Centres until the bombs stop falling. Never have toys had a queerer origin. There are beds, complete with bedding, dolls of all kinds, (Continued in next column)
cots for large-size dolls, see-saws, chutes, fire engines, large model . ( yachts with sails and large pink. , elephants and rocking horses, model shops, complete with goods to the . last detail, model aeroplanes and - aerodromes and a complete convosr set of ships. All of them have been made by 0 the firemen of 29 London stations from the wreckage of the bits of timber and metal, lead piping and guttering. The lead has become soldiers cast from a mould made by a fireman; the American War Relief gave the gay paints for them. Old socks, stockings and curtain rags have supplied the fabrics used. And the result in workmanship , design and colour is as good as the v toys the big stores used to show at. Christmas time. • 1
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 8, 26 January 1942, Page 4
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196SANTA CLAUS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 8, 26 January 1942, Page 4
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