WRENS TRAIN FOR NEW JOB: TRAINING FOR SHIP MECHANICS OF THE WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE, ENGLAND, UK, 1943 - A group of women of the WRNS listen to a lecture being given by their instructor on the conversion, shrinkage and defects of various types of timber, as part of their training to become Ship Mechanics (LC), probably at the Slough Government Training Centre. The diagram on the blackboard shows part of the trunk of a Douglas Fir tree, and explains how certain parts of the tree are most useful for certain types of job

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