NIGHT SHI FT SWINGS INTO
ACTION Oil WEAPON CHESTS
UNDDR powerful electric lights on Monday night a shift of nineteen men started the saws steaming on a straight run from 1800nr-s to in an effort to catch up on the demand for weapon chests, instead of attempting to ‘use v.orks temporary carpenters shop, the shift, moved into workshop at 37 th Biela Park where shifts from Div. Engineers arc' 'on
during the day#
WELDERS & ALL
A Visit at I’9COhrs found Welders Buckleys
Watson and Johnstone
H«G., P e all behind saws
cutting off lengths for boxes; mechanic Stan White was busy
with chisel; Nelson
Waite, grader driver,
Tlo o kNd like an old timer behind a saw,
while r-Truck Drivers
” Kanaka ” Dobson,
” Rod ” Drury, Jack
Hi aha rd s ..and R. V. Smi th were keeping up proem c tion to Carpenters Ni c
hols on 9 Burn e 11 9 Sa ye n and Jennings a
A’z a s . handling a hammer . in a way that' showed he 1 d oo a nasty
man in a nail driving
: THS
combination of carpen-
tens, welders, drivers mechanics and others
were hooking chests, tog' the r in what will, bo record time a it
was one of the best v exhibitions of. self-’ imposed drive anyone could wish to see. One
might well shudder to think what would hap.-
cn to Works. Service should a Manpower Officer look in on the
demonstration,.
THE Quartermaster is a busy man these d r ys. With his staff of ? . ; three he ha had thb time of his life dismantling and packing. The issue of Battle Dress under ” Pop” Draytun and Tommy
Stokes was a well organ isd piece of work. If the unif o rms •ha d been up to same otando rd ther would have been less profanity? & a happier Q,.!'".
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Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 23, 5 August 1944, Page 6
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