DEAF MUTES PLEASED
MUNITION WORKERS SHOT-BLASTING job (Reed. Oct. 5, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 4. The Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, Lord Chatfield, received as guests a party of pressmen who visited a factory somewhere in the Midlands where anti-aircraft shell cases are being turned out. It is typical of 100 factories throughout the country which, till recently, produced cycles, cars, locomotives and textiles. Now, according to a detailed plan.,, prepared in 1934. they, are producing war materials. Even small garages at seaside resorts have been mobilised. The average rate of production of these factories is faster than the best in the last war and the number of operatives has been halved. The steel at the factory visited enters in blocks at one end and emerges later as shells, correct to the millionth part of an inch. The process includes a room where shot-blasting creates such a din that it is necessary to employ deaf mutes, who are unanimously delighted that they have found a place in the nation’s efforts.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20060, 5 October 1939, Page 5
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170DEAF MUTES PLEASED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20060, 5 October 1939, Page 5
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