Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring
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ruby-loftus-screwing-a-breech-ring-210-509154
title:
Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring
text:
Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring is a 1943 painting by the British artist Laura Knight depicting a young woman, Ruby Loftus, working at an industrial lathe cutting the screw of a breech-ring for a Bofors anti-aircraft gun. The painting was commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee as part of the British war effort in the Second World War. Loftus was a 21-year-old woman who had quickly become an expert in the production of breech-rings—in seven months, rather than the several years it
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encyclopedia
description:
1943 painting by Laura Knight
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Loftus_Screwing_a_Breech-ring
date created:
2014-02-03T13:48:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T21:53:40Z
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