Schofield H Driver (4 results)

Condition: New. 2008. N & M Press reprint of 1916 original edition. SB. 55pp + BW plates Above all, shells were the weapons that won the Great War. After the great âshell shortageâ scandal of 1915, the Government grasped the need to manufacture munitions of a mass basis, and thousands of workers â" most of them women â" were recruited into the great munitions factories turning out the ordnance that eventually wore down the enemy. This book, written by two engineers and illustrated with photos and diagrams is an instruction manual for such workers, which tells the story, in plain language, of the production process that turned the raw components of iron, steel, brass, glycerine and explosive into deadly HE, shrapnel and gas shells for those who could not originally tell one end of a lathe from the other.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Hardback. Original example of this scarece reference on Engineering for Munitions workers in the Great War. 2nd Edition 1916. 94pp., ills., diagrams in text, index. Pages browning and new spine with illustrated boards neatly laid on. Ownership name from 1920. Overall good+ condition.

Boards. Condition: Good. Seccond Edition. A handbook no doubt issued to those semi skilled trainee volunteers so urgently needed in the First World War munitions industry. 94pp plus index with black and white plates. Scarce.

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextrnrnAbove all, shells were the weapons that won the Great War. After the great shell shortage scandal of 1915, the Government grasped the need to manufacture munitions of a mass basis, and thousands of workers - most of them women -.