- Title: DEFENCE / INDUSTRY: Women manufacture torpedos in factory
- Date: 10th September 1942
- Summary: SLATE INFORMATION: Women Start Trouble for Hitler's Ships SCOTLAND: Alexandria: INT GV torpedo factory / girls at drilling machines / girl drilling torpedo head part / girl drilling stern of torpedo / girls working at tail pieces / Flora Mclean - ex shop girl / women testing joints of tail piece by air pressure, woman looking at air pressure gauge / pile of propellors pan up to woman shaping propellor, women watching machine. Woman working on shaping machine / GV factory showing half finished torpedos / woman working on part of torpedo / white haired woman working on section of torpedo / woman drilling torpedo section / woman drilling section pan down to drill / nearly finished torpedos / Woman putting death regulator into torpedo, woman cooling torpedo by water to charge air cylinder Girls testing air pressure / girl working dials / woman screwing up section on torpedo and woman turning propellor / female loading torpedo ready for firing EXT Torpedo being fired / Shot showing trail of torpedo through water / torpedo surfacing / torpedo being picked up out of water / launch arriving back with torpedo and hoisting torpedo in / women pushing large type torpedo out from factory. ORIG.NEG. & BLUE GOOD SCENES: Interior of factory showing half finished torpedos. CENSORED SCENES: Girl testing air pressure / propellor of torpedo / type of building pan to river below where torpedos are tested / man looking through telescope at torpedo being fired / trail of torpedo in water. Munitions and Armaments; Industries, Trades and Crafts; Great Britain
- Embargoed: 25th September 1942 13:00
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- Location: ALEXANDRIA, SCOTLAND
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- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Employment,Defence / Military
- Reuters ID: LVAEXVI9FMG3QDXKBJMG69BTEDSF
- Story Text: Torpedo manufacture is latest field of skilled labour successfully entered by women.
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