ALUMINIUM
■"I ■ n~ ' SUPPLY FROM HOUSEWIVES. (United tress Association Per Electric Telegraph Copyright). LONDON, September 33. ‘ Aluminum pots and pans contributed by British housewives have already supplied enough of the metal to build 10 V X ■ Spitfires. It takes only twenty seconds to melt a pot down into an ingot oi aluminium. Pots and pans given up to July T were in the air as parts of aeroplanes 1 ’ a week later. All sorts of metal goods have been handed in by patriotic housewives, including bayonets from the Great War," ancient weapons, even a gigantic Chinese executioner’s sword. Such articles will be sold by auction for tl e war funds. Parts of German machines shot down in Britain are of little use, because their aluminium content is so k . n
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1940, Page 3
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