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Show 1 ; -7-7- 7 Making Martial Millinery For today's lesson we take you to the Detroit plant of the McCord I Radiator company where steel helmets for our bigger, better army i are being turned out at the rate of 12,000 a day. 1 he netv model is 1 pot-shaped. It comes down over the forehead and covers the back of the neck, giving added protection to the entire head and sides of the face. Note how the martial millinery rolls off the assembly line. SEWING . . . What sewing can there be on a steel helmet? The chin-strap. Strap-hooks have already been welded to the steel shell, and the women shown in this picture are sewing on the straps. '""A 1 .A 1 j EDGING . . . The brim of a steel helmet is practically nonexistent, non-existent, but there's a tiny turned-up turned-up edge, and you see that edge put on here. Machine that does the job is called a spank press. WEIGHING . . . Here's something some-thing different in government inspectors in-spectors pretty Marjorie Thompson, who checks finished helmets for weight. Nothing goes over 2 pounds, 7 ounces. r f 5VL 5 J ! vaI . V Yi "1 ; 1 k- V A fi QUADRUPLE CHECK . . . Finished helmets pass on a conveyor belt before the critical eyes of no less than four government inspectors, inspec-tors, frlaivs dont get by. f 85 , , ' L . - v v- Jp"j s ' J HAT RACK .. . In this store room at the McCord plant are some of the thousands of helmets that await shipment to army centers. ON THE MARCH . . . And here ore some of the neiv helmets in use. |