WW2 women aircraft mechanics at work - photo

[Altair]

Women's Auxiliary Air Force mechanics working alongside their male Royal Air Force counterparts.




Previously:

Rosie the Riveter working on an aircraft engine - photo
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...025#post140872
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...945#post148872
Vintage work crew photos
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...926#post144662

[mlochala]

Twice the completion time but three times as clean.

[mansworld]

Unsafe working conditions!.. Standing on the top cap/step of the ladder and lack of safety vest. Nowadays, ladders come with safety stickers that says: Don't use the top cap/step of the ladder or the two rungs bellow it, and maintain 3 points of contact (two hands and a foot, or two feet and a hand).

[mklotz]

Unsafe working conditions!.. Standing on the top cap/step of the ladder and lack of safety vest. Nowadays, ladders come with safety stickers that says: Don't use the top cap/step of the ladder or the two rungs bellow it, and maintain 3 points of contact (two hands and a foot, or two feet and a hand).

All good advice, but I suspect that, had OSHA existed in WWII, we would have lost the war.

[Unkle Fuzzy]

The words "War Emergency Powers", would have pretty much have shut OSHA down during WW2.

All sorts of regulations are circumvented by War Powers and it's related functions.

For those lucky enough to have a WW2 era Machinist's Handbook standard tolerance tables included modified tolerances for War Dept. Work at Home programs. Many of our older machines saw their owners come home after a full shift in a factory, eat a sandwich, and run small parts production for the war effort until late at night.

Some tolerances depending on use, got looser or tighter. Many rules that would hinder production got left to the workers discretion....

[olderdan]

I am pretty sure that plane is a Type 156 Beaufighter.