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Description: | Gas masks became essential to the everyday lives of people in
Great Britain during the Second World War because of the threat
of poisonous gas attacks. They were well known for being
uncomfortable and for smelling of rubber, qualities certain to
stop children from wearing them.
So to encourage younger
children to wear them they were issued with brightly coloured
masks in an attempt to turn the act of wearing them into a
game.
The rubber noses and bright eye rims of the new masks
were compared to a famous cartoon character and they became
known as the Mickey Mouse. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bromley Museum | Rights holder: | Bromley Museum Service | Subjects: | London at War | Temporal: | 4.1939 | Source: | Bromley Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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