WARTIME INDUSTRY (SHIRE)

An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the wartime need for munitions, armour, shipping, uniforms and aircraft. It explores the work of Lord Beaverbrook's Ministry of Aircraft Production; the 'Shadow Factories' that enabled manufacturers such as Vauxhall and Rootes to make tanks and aircraft; the Royal Ordnance Factories that produced firearms and explosives; the 'Bevin Boys' conscripted to work in the coal mines; the Women's Timber Corps; and much more.