CAMOUFLAGE CHIEF

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 93, 19 August 1942, Page 5

CAMOUFLAGE CHIEF

BLOTS OUT BRITAIN'S DEFENCES WITH COLOURED BITS OF CLOTH Britain's airfields, gun sites, lorry parks and other vital war centres are being camouflaged by a man who in peace-time supervised the cutting and making-up of thousands of dainty frocks and blouses. He no longer sits in the office of a Lancashire factory which during the past 30 years has sent frocks out to stores in most parts of the world. To-day the dress expert climbs to vantage points in the countryside of England and Wales to mafce notes of the minutest colour details of the landscape around the site to bo camouflaged. ; Returning to his factory, where ' yards of coloured hessian cover cut-I l ting tables once gay with silks and > cottons, he matches up the hessian - with the colour cards he has brought j back with him. The hessian is then cut into spccial patterns and threaded through rope netting, made by a manufacturer Avith a name known to fishermen the Avorld over. The threading is done by hand, and here the skill of the women dressmakers which comes irom years r of experience, is as Aaluable as their ' director's knowledge of colour schemes. And the result ol llieiv work together is that vital points in Britain's defences appear to Nazi airmen as part of the landscape beneath them.