WOMEN ENGINEERS

Evening Star, Issue 21718, 12 May 1934, Page 21

WOMEN ENGINEERS

Women engineers gathered at Crosby Hall, Chelsea, London, recently,' for the eleventh annual conference of the Women’s Engineering Society (states the ‘ Morning. Post’). Many of them were under thirty real's of age, but had had years of experience as practical engineers. All the papers were read by young women engineers under the ago of twenty-five real's. Miss ,K. J. Muntz, who wore a scarlet leather jacket over her brown skirt, described how she and her sister began their engineering careers by gate-crash-ing into the Do Uaviland Aircraft Company’s factory, and il landed two obs ” as fabric bands. “ t always strongly objected,” she said, “to the thought of controlling a machine without first knowing how it worked, and I. learned all about the innards ’ of a motor car before 1 learned to drive. In the same way I decided to learn about aircraft before I Hew them.” Miss K. M. Cook suggested that many of the right type of women were lost to the engineering profession because they objected to the oil and grease. Miss •). Clissold stated: “I have been asked to state the future possibilities ot my job. Whatever these may bo, J am not going to take advantage of them, because T shall be leaving before long to get married. The