WELDING WOMEN AT WHYTELEAFE

Today's Mullard archive photograph shows a Mullard Whyteleafe Valve Assembly Department operator removing an electrode cage from one of the dustproof boxes in which valve components were stored when not undergoing manufacturing operations.  As you can see, the operator's right hand holds a pair of welding tweezers with which she is about to weld a getter bar onto a selected electrode cage. 

The BBC European Service Science Correspondent in 1953 was CL Boltz and he had much to say about the valve assembly operations but that is a subject for another day and another blog entry.