WOOL GREASE
SHEEP GIVE THE ARMY DUBBIN
Dubbin, with which all bails issued to Britain's Home Guard are in future to be treated, lias for one of its main ingredients grease salvaged from the. wool of sheep. To-day the demand for dubbin is phenomenal in Britain because it not only softens leather and keeps boots -waterproof but is a protective against gas. From one London factory alone tons of dubbin are being turned out not only for the Home Guard but for the Army, the Royal Air Force and the women off the A.T.S. A single contract runs to 250,000 two ounce tins; but it is also-goes oil' in 381b drums into which it is poured from huge. vats. From the same factory great quantities of boot polish, which they produced to the tune of 2000 tans a year in -peace time, are now going to the Canadian Army and to the Forces of the United States.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 92, 17 August 1942, Page 6
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157WOOL GREASE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 92, 17 August 1942, Page 6
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