WOMEN ENGINEERS
TRAINING CENTRE IN ENGLAND
- EXPERT LATHE OPERATORS
Barmaids, hairdressers and charwomen at Home are among the most promising trainees at Government Training Centres for women engineers. Instructors report that barmaids are becoming most successful cliage hands and they soon become expert at setting capstan lathes. Hairdressers, whose hands and fingers have bccome sensitive lrom wave-setting, are doing particularlywell on precision and fine instrument work. Charwomen, with their well-de-veloped muscles, are tackling heavier jobs excellently. They concentrate on such work as painting and fettling—cleaning the heavy castings which they are removing from the mauds. An officiial of the Ministry of Labour told a representative of the London Evening Standard: "Almost without exception trainees are making excellent progress in both routine and semi-skilled engineering jobs."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 11, 2 February 1942, Page 6
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125WOMEN ENGINEERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 11, 2 February 1942, Page 6
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