MINERS’ HELMETS
WOMEN’S NEW MILLINERY LONDON, Nov. 29. As an air raid protection women in England are now wearing miners’ helmets. A firm making these helmets recently had orders from the millinery departments of stores. Women buy them for three shillings and trim them with flowers, feathers and veils. Though made of wood pulp and weighing only eight ounces, the miner's helmet gives almost as much protection as the regulation “tin hat.” The manufacturers discard a helmet if it is so much as dented by an eightpound iron ball dropped from fivfeet.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20452, 13 January 1941, Page 3
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92MINERS’ HELMETS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20452, 13 January 1941, Page 3
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