Women and War Work by Helen Fraser
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Exhibition--the largest number of these being foremen and workmen sent
by their firms. [Illustration: RIVETTING ON BOILERS] [Illustration: FACING BOILER BLUE FLANGES] The Exhibitions consist of two main sections, one of which shows actual samples of munitions made by women, and the other of photographs of women doing work on apparatus or processes that could not be shown. A complete Clerget engine, for instance, was lent by the Air Board to illustrate the final assembly of the numerous parts of these engines being made wholly or partly by women. In the same way, many parts of complete Stokes Guns, Vickers Machine Guns and Service Rifles were exhibited. The exhibits were divided into fifteen groups. The first group dealing with engines for aircraft. The second group showed engines for motor cars, tanks, tractors, motor buses, motor lorries and motor vehicles. A separate group consisted of a variety of accessories for internal combustion engines, including air pump for the Clerget engine, which is completely manufactured and assembled by women, largely under women supervision; and magnetos, a very important and accurate industry, before the war largely in German hands, of which women now undertake the entire manufacture. The fourth group dealt with steam engines, including details of locomotives, high speed engines, steam winches, and steam turbines. The next two groups dealt respectively with guns and components and |
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