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There were a lot of people working in the factory with me — let me think, there were seven sections — and there were a lot of processes. The first process cut them to size; the second one went on to a machine that bent it, so that a cap could go in to the end of it. The next one shaped it, the following one cut it off. Then it came to us and we put two holes in it for where they’d bent it for the cap to sit in the two holes. That was it.

After that they had to go in to be inspected because they couldn’t be a scratch on them — because if there was a scratch on them they wouldn’t fire properly.

They used to go from us up to another factory to be filled with powder.
In the section up above us — in the same factory (but as it was divided, they did different work) they made bullets that went in to the end. The bullets were made out of lead — out of long big coils of lead. It was all very interesting, I enjoyed it.

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Becky Barugh of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Edith Morgan and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

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