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The Other Man’s Job: New Boots from Old

Series

Series Name
Warwork News

Issue

Issue No.
S15/45
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The Other Man’s Job: New Boots from Old
  2. 2Workers Man Improved Night Defences

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 2
Summary
In the forces the footwear casualty rate is high. Renovating factories aim to save millions of square feet of leather: damaged boots are sorted, sized, and put into racks; soles and heels are ripped off and insoles removed; uppers are washed and disinfected, then dried. Meanwhile new vamps are cut out and sent off to the renovating factory. The uppers are then patched and stitched and insoles, outer soles and heels added. The boots (150,000 pairs per week) are then good as new. Finished boots.
Keywords
Industry and manufacture; Fashion and costume

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name
Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
Email
film@iwm.org.uk
Web
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/film
Phone
020 7416 5291
Fax
020 7416 5379
Address
Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ
Notes
The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.
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