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Description: | This woman assembly worker is framed in the perspex nose-cone of a Handley-Page Halifax bomber at Leavesden Works near Watford. London Transport joined forces with four motor companies to make up The London Aircraft Production Group, which manufactured the aircraft. A predominantly female labour force constructed over 700 of these bombers. They were also test-flown at the aerodrome.
The Halifax and the Lancaster were the bombers the British used most in air raids over Nazi Germany. The Halifax dropped about a quarter of all the bombs released by the Royal Air Force.
By the end of the 20th century, a film studio stood on this spot. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | London at War Work | Temporal: | 1941-1945 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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