Demob
Demob. A precision engineering works in Birmingham on VE Day. Eight in ten of your orders are Ministry contracts for gun sights and fuzes, and every one has a…
The war is over. The contracts end on Friday.
A precision engineering works in Birmingham on VE Day. Eight in ten of your orders are Ministry contracts for gun sights and fuzes, and every one has a break clause. Most of your fitters are women, and men past call-up age. From June the men who went away start coming home, and the law says their jobs must be waiting.
- Starts
- May 1945
- Length
- two years
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Scored on
- Still employ 30 people at the end
- Business
- Precision Engineering Shop
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