On War Work in Britain: Aircraft workers from India: 1942-1944, Catalogue Ref: INF 2/11 (5)
This poster is part of publicity material created for India and Burma during the war. It shows a trainee of Indian heritage who has joined an industrial training scheme organised by the Ministry of Labour to make aircraft in Britain.
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ON WAR WORK IN BRITAIN: No. 5
AIRCRAFT WORKERS FROM INDIA
Mr. G. Mustaja, a trainee from the North-West frontier, is working in an English aircraft factory, learning aircraft maintenance. Like hundreds of other young Indians, Mr. Mustaja came to Britain under the industrial training scheme organised by the Ministry of Labour. When fully trained he will return to India where the war-time expansion of industry has been enormous. India’s shipbuilding yards are working to full capacity: over fifty varieties of motor vehicles are being produced in the country. Ordnance factories have stepped up production and new records have been set up in the iron, steel, coal, and paper industries.