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

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  • Title: WOMEN'S WORK ON MUNITIONS OF WAR [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 419
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  • Summary: Women in munitions work in Britain, 1918.
  • 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.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 419
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Handley Page Limited (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: industry, British - aircraft (object name) industry, British - munitions (object name) industry, British - vehicles (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Handley Page 0/400 (object name) weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer (object name) weapons, British - gun: 60-pounder (object name) armour, British - tank: Tank Mark V Female (object name) 31/3(41) (event) GB, England & London, NW <Cricklewood & Handley Page works> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 718 ft; Running time: 12 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 419

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