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Description: | From the Sheffield Daily Telegraph Saturday 20th September 1916: At Cammel Laird's yesterday women appeared in a new guise of the driver of an electric crane when four bonny looking girls took their first lesson in this work, in which they will very shortly replace an eqyual number of men. "It is very simple." explained one of them, "and very automatic." asked as to what had been her former employment she replied, "I have been a machinist for over a year. You cannot put anyone unaccustomed to the works. The work I had been doing was boring, and it was very heavy, but this is just moving levers, and doesn't require any muscular strength." One of the girls said that she was a dressmaker and milliner by trade, another had been an optician, while the two remaining "workmen" had previously to war time been stay at home girls. The girls looked really charming in their sensible overalls of chocolate brown. piped with blue, the trousers buckled around the ankles. We were extremly glad to hear that there is a propositon to make this uniform universal, as not only does it seem essential for the safety of the girls, but it is far more hygenic and comfortable and not nearly so tiring and unpracticable as a skirt. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ |
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Rights holder: | Sheffield Newspapers | Subjects: | Sheffield | Source: | Sheffield Images | Creator: | Picture Sheffield Administrator | Identifier: | http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend... | Go to resource |
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