MADE BY LACE-MAKERS
NET FOR LIBYAN TROOPS
WORK OF BRITISH FACTORY
Millions of. yards of mosquito netting for the Allied troops in Libya are being made in a British factory which in peacetime supplied artificial silk for ladies’ lingerie.
When the. Libyan campaign started, the Government called for 20,000,000 yards of this netting to protect the troops against malaria-carrying mosquitos, sandflies and other pests.
The material had of course been produced in Britain for njany years by lace machines in Nottingham, but more than 11,000 miles of it was required ““at once or sooner.” It was a tough proposition. The Government, however, was soon relieved of its anxieties, for all the owners of war-knitting machiiies in Britain met and undertook to adapt their machinery to the job. The alterations called for careful work by Expert machinists, and many impromptu ideas.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3111, 27 April 1942, Page 2
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