FULL STEAM AHEAD IN BRITAIN'S MUNITION FACTORIES—The great drive for more guns and more munitions is gaining fresh impetus every hour. Girls of 17 are working shoulder to shoulder in tne production of arms for the fighting men. Many of the girls are putting in 12 hours a day. and all the men Are working a 70hour week. Practically all the machinery is working full pressure. 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Upper: Experts examining the barrels of machine guns and Bren guns. In front of them arc stacked hundreds of such barrels all awaiting individual examination. Lower: The last test. An assembled Bren gun being fired on a range in a test for accuracy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1940, Page 6
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117FULL STEAM AHEAD IN BRITAIN'S MUNITION FACTORIES—The great drive for more guns and more munitions is gaining fresh impetus every hour. Girls of 17 are working shoulder to shoulder in tne production of arms for the fighting men. Many of the girls are putting in 12 hours a day. and all the men Are working a 70- hour week. Practically all the machinery is working full pressure. 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Upper: Experts examining the barrels of machine guns and Bren guns. In front of them arc stacked hundreds of such barrels all awaiting individual examination. Lower: The last test. An assembled Bren gun being fired on a range in a test for accuracy. Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1940, Page 6
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