AIR EQUIPMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1941, Page 5

AIR EQUIPMENT

HOW BRITISH WOMEN ARE RESPONDING. URGENT CALL FOR MORE PRODUCTION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 10. How British women in aircraft factories are responding to the , urgent call of the R.A.F. for more and more equipment is told by the Ministry of Aircraft Production. Two Bomber Command pilots with more than 30 operational flights over Germany visited a certain factory which produces electrical gear for the newest and deadliest bombers. The women had not had a weekend break for weeks past. The pilots said: “You have worked hard but we ask you to work even harder. The equipment you make is l so vitally needed that we ask you to give us this weekend as well and make up 500 pieces. If you will do it we will call on Monday with a lorry to take the finished gear away and deliver it to the Bomber Command. Will you do it for us?” The determined girls shouted' “yes” —and returned to their benches. Husbands, sweethearts, children and homes went by the board. One girl, about to marry an aircraftman in the R.A.F. whom she had not seen for months,postponed her trip to the village near the station where he was posted. A women charge hand gave up her first visit in many weeks to her evacuated children. Another whose husband is in the Army sacrificed seeing her small son —also for the first time in weeks. When the pilots arrived on Monday morning more than 1000 pieces of equipment were ready for them.