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1942 DEFENCE / INDUSTRY: Women manufacture torpedos in factory
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2:17Now PlayingDate: 10th September 1942
Location: ALEXANDRIA, SCOTLAND
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Women Start Trouble for Hitler's Ships
SCOTLAND: Alexandria:
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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
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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.
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Interior of factory showing half finished torpedos.
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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
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