A WOMEN'S ENGINEERING FACTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 243, 11 October 1916, Page 10

A WOMEN'S ENGINEERING FACTORY.

An extremely interesting venture is being launched in Scotland in the nature of a new profession for women. At a place on the west coast of Scotland a factory is to be built where work in the nature of the building of aeroplane engine parts will be undertaken, and when a sufficient nucleus of skilled women is formed the whole engine will be built in the works. Possibly after the war engines for motors will be part of the work. The venture owes its origin to the fact that two of the directors of a well-known controlled establishment have been so impressed by the work done by educated women that they are prepared to sink £40,000 in a concern which will be worked entirely by such women.

Ordinary factory conditions will not' prevail. The work will be run in two shifts, night and day, each shift comprising two periods of four hours, with breaks for meals, rest and technical instruction. Examinations will be held after the first six months, and on these examinations will depend the money earned. It is probable that the lowest rate will be 25/ a werk, and the highest £250 a year. The building will comprise besides the main workshop and office, messrooms, recreation rooms, music room, library, and class rooms for technical instruction.

Applications for women workers can be made in the first instance to " Women Service," the London branch of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, who have been doing a great deal of work in the way of training women in aircraft and engineering work.