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Description: | Concept: women / womens work, industry, recruiting, aircraft, munitions / manufacture Description: whole: the image occupies the majority, partially held within a white circular border. The title is separate and positioned along the top edge, in white outlined black. The text is separate and positioned in the upper quarter, lower centre, lower right and bottom edge left, in black. All set against a grey background and held within a white border. image: a full-length depiction of a female munition worker, wearing a cap and overalls, operating a lathe-like machine on a workbench. Three biplanes can be seen flying through a factory window in the background. text: LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL WOMEN WANTED FOR MUNITION WORK FREE TRAINING WITH MAINTENANCE PAYMENTS CLASSES CONDUCTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE MINISTRY OF MUNITIONS. Courses are provided in bench work, machine work, tool setting, grinding, aeroplane assembling, acetylene welding, and tracing for drawing offices. Classes are held in North and South London, and students are required to attend for 8 hours daily. A subsistence allowance of 25/- per week is payable to women accepted for training in London Centres, or 18/- per week in specially approved cases of women unable to leave London. One extra payment of 25/- is made after training when women are placed in factories over 10 miles from their usual home address. Tools, Caps and Overalls are supplied free of charge. Particulars and application forms in regard to these classes may be obtained from the Education Officer, L.C.C. Education Offices, Victoria Embankment, W.C.2. R. BLAIR, Education Officer. May, 1918. Object: industrial machine, aircraft, overalls | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Publisher/Sponsor: London County Council | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2694... | Go to resource |
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