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Checking Cartridges, soon to be spitting from a Spitfire into the heart of a Nazi bomber
Checking Cartridges, soon to be spitting from a Spitfire into the heart of a Nazi bomber

Checking Cartridges, soon to be spitting from a Spitfire into the heart of a Nazi bomber

Date11/1/1941
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Original Toronto Star caption: Checking Cartridges; soon to be spitting from a Spitfire into the heart of a Nazi bomber. It took a lot of this lead to win last fall's air battle over Britain.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0019301F
Sixty per cent. of the workers at the factory where signal cartridges and flares are made are women, forty per cent. are men. Here are two of the wome(...)
Sixty per cent. of the workers at the factory where signal cartridges and flares are made are women, forty per cent. are men. Here are two of the wome(...)
6/14/1941
Right, an inspector testing cartridges at an intricate machine
Right, an inspector testing cartridges at an intricate machine
12/16/1939
525,000 Heavy shells, 25,000,000 cartridges
525,000 Heavy shells, 25,000,000 cartridges
6/12/1945
She's helping to keep those Lancasters rolling: One Lancaster bomber a day is the current production record of Victory Aircraft at Malton, despite a 2,500 reduction in staff
She's helping to keep those Lancasters rolling: One Lancaster bomber a day is the current production record of Victory Aircraft at Malton, despite a 2,500 reduction in staff
3/8/1945
and other types of guns that soon will send out a hot tune for the Axis from early three years to pounce on Hitler's hordes waiting across the English(...)
and other types of guns that soon will send out a hot tune for the Axis from early three years to pounce on Hitler's hordes waiting across the English(...)
6/15/1942
Former R.A.F. Flying Officer Hogan inspects the finished results of the trophy collection. Made from German guns captured in the first world war these(...)
Former R.A.F. Flying Officer Hogan inspects the finished results of the trophy collection. Made from German guns captured in the first world war these(...)
3/15/1941
Shells, too, in untold numbers, are proceeding from Canada's factories to the war Zones
Shells, too, in untold numbers, are proceeding from Canada's factories to the war Zones
1/1/1940
Somewhere in Quebec they're turning out these Chicago pianos Canadian warships and from the Canadian army that has waited ne More and more, Quebec wo(...)
Somewhere in Quebec they're turning out these Chicago pianos Canadian warships and from the Canadian army that has waited ne More and more, Quebec wo(...)
1/1/1942
Every day more and more tanks are rumbling off production lines from factories throughout the United States
Every day more and more tanks are rumbling off production lines from factories throughout the United States
4/11/1942
Tanks from World War No. 1 are part fo the big scrap pile in this Baltimore, Md., salvage yard. The steel will go to mills where it will be reproduced(...)
Tanks from World War No. 1 are part fo the big scrap pile in this Baltimore, Md., salvage yard. The steel will go to mills where it will be reproduced(...)
9/19/1942
Taking a cue from other democratic countries, women in the Unied States are flocking into war industries
Taking a cue from other democratic countries, women in the Unied States are flocking into war industries
3/24/1941
After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment
After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment
10 July 1944