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| Picture No | 10823346 |
| Date | 1916 |
| Description | Cutting sixty khaki uniforms at once, WW1 |
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Scene at a garment manufacturer in New Jersey, USA, which was able to turn out 50,000 khaki uniforms a day for Allied troops by a cutting process which allowed sixty pieces of fabric to be cut at once. A man can be seen operating a band saw in order to cut the sixty layers in one go.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in The Sphere, 12 August 1916 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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