WOMEN'S WORK [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 17 mins
  • Description: I. Women making and shaping spade cutters for guns (endless repetition) using heavy plant, a factory in Britain, 1917 or 1918.II. Women making internal combustion engines, including some tank engines, and operating a 20-ton crane to move a heavy gun carriage across a shop floor, a factory in Britain, 1917 or 1918.III. Women demonstrating work with a new fluid gauge which measures in one rapid operation lengths of between 1/1,000th and 1/50,000th of an inch (an inch is roughly 2.5cm), a factory in Britain, 1917 or 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / industry, British - munitions / industry, British - guns / industry, British - munitions / industry, British - general / 31/3(41) / 31/3(41) / 31/3(41) / GB, England / GB, England / GB, England / sex / sex / sex
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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