OLD RAGS INTO NEW CLOTH: SALVAGE IN BRITAIN, APRIL 1942 - A worker at this textile mill removes rags from the carbonising machine. The carbonising process destroys any non-wool fibres in shredded salvaged material, so that the rags can become 'shoddy' and be used to produce new woollen garments. ,

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