NEW TIN HATS
FOR A THIRD OF ALL BRITONS One inhabitant of Britain in every three has a tin hat now that 2,700,000 of a new type have been added to the 14,000,000 already supplied to the fighting forces, the Home Guard, the civil Defence services, fire-watchers and industrial workers. The latest style, which is for firewatchers and industrial workers, is shaped like a pudding basin. It has been designed by the Ministry of Supply with an adjustable band inside the rim to fit trimly over a women’s hair without a chin strap. The band is adjusted by a shoe-lace threaded through holes drilled in the rim. Tin hats have reached the enormous total of 10,700,000 because by a simple engineering process they can be stamped out from sheet metal in one single press operation, which produces the hat from the die. The subsequent drilling and finishing is an easy job, quickly done.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4527, 23 January 1942, Page 6
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