INTREPID GIRL DRIVER
LONDON, June 10. A war. work that no other woman in Britain has yet undertaken is ascribed to an 18-year-old Edinburgh girl, Ellen Steed, who drives a 15-ton crane lifting loads of molten metal direct from a foundry furnace. She was “discovered” a few months ago by Mrs. Elma Mackie, a welfare supervisor, who went to a Scottish labour exchange looking for "a girl without nerves.” Her attention was drawn to Ellen Steed, a machinist with' a printing firm, who wanted to be a motor driver but jumped at the chance of becoming Britain’s first direct-from-the furnace crane driver. Now she is the envy of several hundred girls turning out important tank parts at a south-east Scottish foundry.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20861, 13 August 1942, Page 3
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121INTREPID GIRL DRIVER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20861, 13 August 1942, Page 3
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