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Description: | Women factory workers manufacture essential aircraft components at the Plessey wartime factory. It was based in Underground tunnels that made up the Central line extension before it was open to the public.
The factory was between what are now Wanstead, Redbridge and Gant's Hill stations, making fuel pumps and engine starters deep underground, out of reach of the bombing raids.
Workers worked long hours, beginning at 7.30am and often working overtime for no pay. Knowledge that they were doing their bit for the war effort was enough of a compensation for many people. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | London at War Work | Temporal: | 23 Jul 1941 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : Topical Press | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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