WOMEN'S WORK ON MUNITIONS OF WAR [Main Title]

Women in munitions work in Britain, 1918.

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.

35mm