WOMEN'S WORK ON MUNITIONS OF WAR [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 12 mins
  • Description: I. (Reel 1) The Handley Page works at Cricklewood, London. Women work as clerks, help build aeroplane engines, cope with acetylene welding and complex wiring jobs, spray-paint Lewis machine gun magazines, and dope the fuselage of a partially-assembled Handley Page 0/400 bomber. II. (Reel 2) Women workers in unknown factories, operating various mechanisms, mainly lathes, for manufacturing guns. One woman operates an overhead crane to lift a completed 60-pounder gun across the shop floor, then the carriage of a 6-inch 26cwt howitzer across in the other direction. Women work on assembling a tank engine, and the track linkages. Other women are at work "varnishing" (?) a partly-assembled Mark V Female tank.
    Women in munitions work in Britain, 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Handley Page Limited / industry, British - aircraft / industry, British - munitions / industry, British - vehicles / aircraft, British - combat: Handley Page 0/400 / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer / weapons, British - gun: 60-pounder / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark V Female / 31/3(41) / GB, England & London, NW / sex & [+]
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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