New Venture Helps To Combat The Cold

Sunny days or no sunny days, the nights have been very cold, with frosts of over 10 degrees being recorded, And that cold has penetrated the bed clothes - we know! The Zip group at Annesbrook is aware that people like to be warm at night, so they've started a new venture, the manufacture of electric blankets. With an almost completely all-female staff, the firm has been producing now for about three months.

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Four eiderdowns to give the warmth of one electric blanket

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Ken Ruston, supervisor, puts a finished blanket through its last test

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Mrs Phyllis Wills cuts her way through layers of the special woollen cloth.

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Threading the wire through the cloth is a painstaking business carried out here by Irene Douglas and Marguerita Forsyth.

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A battery of machinists finish off the cloth after wiring