Shellac’s War Role Expands Across Britain India and America
Shellac, a natural resin from a tiny Indian insect, is central to Britain's war effort. About 60 percent of production coats machinery and paints while new uses in aircraft weatherproofing and other industry grow. Demand rises as peace-time products yield to shellac needs for guns, fuzes, coatings, and equipment.
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Gramophone Records
Animal ’ Agency
India
America
Syrescopie
Couls Petrol Coutal
Alee
Peace Me
Testing Middle East Railways Engines and Gear Tech
A Libyan desert bound band tests diesel shunters at London's Midland and Scottish Railway lab to simulate Middle East desert conditions. Experiments improve cooling air flow in gear boxes for tanks, plus a pistol-like device recovers fasteners from correspondence. Research aids war effort with substitutes like wool grease, barbed wire augmentations, steel bullets, and armor plate. Women masters painters by simplifying spray techniques for war service.
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Ben
London, Midland and
Beottish
Middle East
Aml
Mradford
Nan Bey
Razor blades loom large in Sheffield war effort
In wartime Sheffield cuilere ramp up long handled razor production as 25 percent output limits for home use bite. Civilian demand soars as steel strip and stamping machines toil, with blades flowing to military and ARP depots while hospitals and balloon barrage posts receive spoons forks and cutlery.
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Beowire
Sheffield Cuilere
Wong Oval
Subery
Sheffield
Ax Just
A.R.P
Timoshenko’s New Saddle from London Harness Makers
London saddlers supplying the harness for King George are making a cavalry saddle for Marshal Timoshenko as a birthday present from British schoolchildren. The saddle showcases British craftsmanship and comes amid wartime yarn of harness work for rural and transport industries on the home front.
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Marshal Timoshenko
London
George
Sitte
Hussia
Metropolitan Police
Colonies
Talia
Elizabeth
Britain
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