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https://www.libertysteelgroup.com 05-04-2018 08:43:57
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With many of the country’s male steelworkers conscripted to the armed forces, it was left to the country’s women – some of whom were wives, girlfriends and sisters of those workers – to keep our steel mills running and producing parts vital to the war effort [2/3] #VEDay #VEDay75
![With many of the country’s male steelworkers conscripted to the armed forces, it was left to the country’s women – some of whom were wives, girlfriends and sisters of those workers – to keep our steel mills running and producing parts vital to the war effort [2/3] #VEDay #VEDay75](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXLKBKHXYAAlA3O.jpg "GFG Alliance (@gfgalliance) on Twitter photo With many of the country’s male steelworkers conscripted to the armed forces, it was left to the country’s women – some of whom were wives, girlfriends and sisters of those workers – to keep our steel mills running and producing parts vital to the war effort [2/3] #VEDay #VEDay75")
![These women took up many positions at Clydebridge and Dalzell including crane driving, and lathe turning. Steel from both mills was used in the construction of the Vanguard battleship and aircraft carrier Theseus [3/3] #VEDay #VEDay75](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXLKKoTXsAEmJP7.jpg "GFG Alliance (@gfgalliance) on Twitter photo These women took up many positions at Clydebridge and Dalzell including crane driving, and lathe turning. Steel from both mills was used in the construction of the Vanguard battleship and aircraft carrier Theseus [3/3] #VEDay #VEDay75")
![Foremen from Liberty’s Accles & Pollock business in Oldbury were brought into the factory to marshal a workforce of several thousand predominantly local women to make tubular steel that was sent to aircraft assembly lines. [2/3] #VEDay #VEDay75](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXVWiozVcAAwZRT.jpg "GFG Alliance (@gfgalliance) on Twitter photo Foremen from Liberty’s Accles & Pollock business in Oldbury were brought into the factory to marshal a workforce of several thousand predominantly local women to make tubular steel that was sent to aircraft assembly lines. [2/3] #VEDay #VEDay75")
![Other components for the Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft were produced at the factory along with rifle barrels for the Sten submachine gun. Read more here: ow.ly/6CJs50zyoIM [3/3] #VEDay #VEDay75](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXVXB0HUcAA5-Nw.jpg "GFG Alliance (@gfgalliance) on Twitter photo Other components for the Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft were produced at the factory along with rifle barrels for the Sten submachine gun. Read more here: ow.ly/6CJs50zyoIM [3/3] #VEDay #VEDay75")
![Pictured below is Jimmy Batchen, an employee of British Aluminium’s Lochaber smelter and hydropower plant, with an unexploded 500kg bomb that was dropped by the Luftwaffe on the power house shortly before 9am on 22 December 1940. [1/3] #VEDay #VEDay75](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXakslbWoAAmyyu.jpg "GFG Alliance (@gfgalliance) on Twitter photo Pictured below is Jimmy Batchen, an employee of British Aluminium’s Lochaber smelter and hydropower plant, with an unexploded 500kg bomb that was dropped by the Luftwaffe on the power house shortly before 9am on 22 December 1940. [1/3] #VEDay #VEDay75")
![Jimmy, who was reading instruments in the power house when the bomb hit, was hurt by flying debris but fortunately lived to tell the tale. [2/3] #VEDay #VEDay75](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXak6YoWkAEvpJH.jpg "GFG Alliance (@gfgalliance) on Twitter photo Jimmy, who was reading instruments in the power house when the bomb hit, was hurt by flying debris but fortunately lived to tell the tale. [2/3] #VEDay #VEDay75")
![Germany’s reconnaissance and eventual bombing of the smelter reflected its importance to Britain’s war effort. Lochaber produced 35,000 tonnes of aluminium per year for use in aircraft production, armaments and ships under the Ministry of Supply. [3/3] #VEDay #VEDay75](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXamxF3XgAEbzmc.jpg "GFG Alliance (@gfgalliance) on Twitter photo Germany’s reconnaissance and eventual bombing of the smelter reflected its importance to Britain’s war effort. Lochaber produced 35,000 tonnes of aluminium per year for use in aircraft production, armaments and ships under the Ministry of Supply. [3/3] #VEDay #VEDay75")
