IRON RAILINGS
I CONVERSION INTO WAR MATERIAL. I BIG RESERVE DRAWN UPON IN BRITAIN. (British Ofl'icial Wireless.) (Received This Dav. 11.39 a.m.) RUGBY. March 28. Symbolic of Britain's determination to throw all her resources into the struggle is a call from the Ministry of Supply for a census of all unessential railings and ironwork in fifteen provincial towns. This is expected to disclose a reserve of hundreds of thousands of tons of scrap metal. In London. 35 tons of railings have been turned into war material at a mill
which can handle 509 tons of scrap iron weekly, and which recently dealt with 200 tons or twisted girders, proceeds of the London blitz. Parliament Square yielded fifteen ions of railings.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1941, Page 6
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120IRON RAILINGS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1941, Page 6
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