MINERS' HELMETS
WOMEN'S NEW MILLINERY [from OUR OWN rOHKKSroNDKNT] LOXDO.V. Nov. -j 9 As an air raid protection women in Kngland arc now wearing miners' helmets. A firm making these helmets recently had orders irotn the millinery depart merits of hi ores. Women buy them tor three shillings and trim them with flowers, feathers and veils. Though made of wood pulp and weighing only eight ounces, flic miner's helmet gives almost as much protection as the regulation "tin hat." The manufacturers discard a helmet- if il is so much as dented by an eight-pound iron ball dropped from live feet.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 14
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100MINERS' HELMETS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 14
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