MILLIONS OF PINS
METAL USED INSTEAD FOR GRENADES. Britain used 1,500,000,000 fewer pins last than in 1940, and there will be several million fewer this year; already men’s new' shirts have surrendered the dozen pins with which it was the quite unnecessary ritual to fasten them up. . The steel and brass from which they are made are doing a more important job, today. The steel goes into -anything from a hand grenade upwards; the brass becomes anything from a gas mask fastener to a Bofors cartridge. Yet one firm alone can still produce 60,000,000 pins a week, an output which before the war would have brought in £50,000 a year. The pin itself has its war uses. Tire aircraft industry needs huge quantities for pinning fabric together. Britain’s Stationery Office buys very’ largely as do the Dominion ,and Colonial Governments, including the India Office.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1942, Page 4
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144MILLIONS OF PINS Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1942, Page 4
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