MOBILE ENGINEERS
Flying Squads in Britain To Speed Production
SKILLED LABOUR SHORTAG T
British oracial Wireless. Rec. 5.30 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. " National flying squads of skills engineers have been formed by thr Ministry of Supply. They are known as the "nims"—National Industria Mobile Squads—and their job is to get production under way in the shortest possible time at Britain's new factories.
The increasing shortage of skilled labour in the country is creating a problem. Only by using to the utmost the experience and ability of everj' key man can output be stepped up to the desired limits. Each man in the "nims" is an expert fitter, setter, driller, turner or craftsman, from the established ordnance factories.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 211, 6 September 1941, Page 1 (Supplement)
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