BRITAIN’S WOMEN FIGHT HITLER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 29 August 1942, Page 6

BRITAIN’S WOMEN FIGHT HITLER

SHIPS FOR THE BATTLE OF THE | OCEANS A new welding machine recently j sent to Britain from the United States | is being used with great success in | training the women who are to-day ( helping to build ships for the Battle of I the Oceans. The women become good electric , welders after a brief training, a growing number of them are now working alongside their menfolk in the yards of the Tees, Tyne, Wear, Mersey and Clyde. They are taking over the lighter jobs such as painting a ship’s structure; every week more and more of them are to be seen high up on the staging. Heavier work like riveting is not quite their line, but they make excellent rivet heaters. They are to be found on repetition work in the machine shops. They make piston rings. They assemble valves. In oil engine works on the Clyde theirs is the chief labour used in building oil coolers. Women are even taking over work as fitters on the lower parts of heavy marine engines which can be reached from the floor or the first staging. And everyone is agreed that they are a success: the Government, the employers, the trade unions, and —the women themselves.