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• WEST INDIANS IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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  West Indian aid to Britain: The people of Jamaica supply a Crusader tank to Britain: Lieutenant Colonel Yeo (left, from the War Office) and Major General J S Crawford (Deputy Director General of Fighting Vehicle Production) at the hand-over of the tank...

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  Factory canteens: Behind the counter of a Royal Ordnance factory canteen, women prepare to serve dinners.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  Factory Canteens: A Ministry of Supply factory canteen. Cafeterias of this kind provided good quality, low priced food for thousands of workers each day.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  Production Drives and Posters: An exhibition at the Royal Ordnance Factory at Radway Green, near Alsager, Cheshire aiming to increase production. The gun turret from a bomber is on display, bearing the notice 'It needs the ammunition we make'.

• VERA LYNN VISITS A MUNITIONS FACTORY, UK, 1941

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  Vera Lynn sings to workers during a lunchtime concert at a munitions factory, somewhere in Britain.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  Factory Entertainments and Visits: Gracie Fields helping two women workers stamp a shell case at an ordnance factory. She was visiting in order to give a Ministry of Labour 'Munitions Concert' which was organised by ENSA [Entertainments National Service...

• LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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  Wartime Entertainers: The singer Vera Lynn, who became so popular with British servicemen that she was known as the 'Forces Sweetheart' sings to workers during their lunch break at a factory in the south of England.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  Munitions production: The main assembly shop of a Midlands Ministry of Supply factory which was mass producing Covenanter tanks.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  Munitions production: The top plate of the hull of a Mark IV Humber armoured car being ground by a worker in a Ministry of Supply factory. The opening in which the turret is fitted must be exact to within a thousandth of an inch.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  The Wartime Workforce: Four trainees at a Government munitions training factory using protractors during a plan drawing lesson. Ministry of Labour Training Centres had been in operation since the 1920s, but during the war it became necessary to expand...

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  The Wartime Workforce: 'Ginger' the youngest worker at a Ministry of Supply factory, working on predictor equipment for an anti-aircraft detachment.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  Munitions production: Fuses being assembled in a die casting factory. This work was carried out almost exclusively by women.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  The Wartime Workforce: A woman war worker with refugee status assembles voltmeters and ammeters in a converted showroom in the Paddington area of London.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  The Wartime Workforce: Skilled workers who formed a Ministry of Supply mobile industrial 'flying squad' leaving London armed with their own tools, to assist a factory in the north east.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  Welfare and Personnel Management: Welfare officers, who offered legal, personal and financial advice to factory employees.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  Welfare and Personnel Management: A doctor examins the hands of munitions workers.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  The Building Industry: The war-time building programme: women working as bricklayers' labourers.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  The Chemical Industry: At a Ministry of Supply factory, women produced explosives, dyes, fertilisers, plastics, drugs and the hundreds of other chemicals needed for war. Miss Arnold preparing a chemical solution in the factory's laboratory.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  Munitions production: Production at some factories was hit by war-time bombing. On 3 March 1945 a rocket bomb made a direct hit on the Dunlop Rubber Company at Edmonton in north London. This started a fire which burnt down buildings where clothing for...

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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  Munitions production: Ministry of Supply riveter, John Lewis, engaged in the production of a 5.5 inch howitzer. He is shown piecing together the cradle of the gun.