WELDING CLUB

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4561, 17 April 1942, Page 4

WELDING CLUB

MILITARY EQUIPMENT HOW YOU CAN ASSIST With upward of thirty technicians and mechanics assembling twice each week and doing good work, the Ts Awamutu Welding Club, the mechanical section of the local E.P.S., is now in full operation, and the appeal goes forth for further donations of waste material. In addition to the articles mentioned in the advertisement on the front page abovf the signature of the Chief Warden (Mr L. G. Armstrong), farmers, in particular, can assist in two important directions. • Many farmers no doubt have pieces of olu harness, saddles, etc., lying about their sheds- Bring these in to the Welding Club—they are urgently needed lor making leather washers.

Two-gallon containers to hold the benzine which can now be issued to the E.P.S. cannot be obtained locally. The Welding Club proposes to make them, but shortage of material presents a difficulty. It may happen that you have an old motor-car body lying about; it may be that you have converted your old car into a farm truck, and have discarded the body. Bring the latter in to the Welding Club, which will convert it into two-gallon containers.

Above all, remember that all scrap-iron and waste material lying about is valuable these days and can be converted into all sorts of equipment for the Home Guard, E.P.S., or military authorities. BRING IT IN TO-DAY ! THE CHANGED SCENE WAR-TIME PRODUCTION INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER Manufacturers of teapots in Britain are now making tin hats, a cap factory is turning out bullets, and the makers of roller skates and ice skates are at work on aircraft components, as the result of factory control. Many British concerns have swung over to war production under earlier rearmament programmes, but in the last six months the work of the Board of Trade’s Factory and Storage Premises Control has brought thousands more works, large and small, to direct war production. Torpedoes are coming from a boot and shoe factory, and aero engineparts from a hairpin work*, while a beauty-cream factory is applying its experience to the making of anti-gas and medicated ointments.

Art silk manufacturers are busy on munitions, and a wallpaper mill is filling shells, the cases for which are being made by silversmiths and the fuses by makers of brass taps.