"An uncommon and informative guide for members of the Women's Timber Corps, giving details, amongst other things, of uniform, boots and leggings, conditions of service, sick and injury pay, and leave. 'As more young men have to be called to the Forces, the Women's Timber Corps must play a still bigger part in production through the critical offensive year of 1943. Timber is one of the bulkiest imports, the more timber you produce or help to produce, the more ships are released for the offensive. During 1942 some workers in the Women's Timber Corps were saving shipping space at a rate of 50 tons per year each' (p. 1). The Women's Timber Corps was, of course, an off shoot of the Women's Land Army. It had originally been set up to teach women to make pit props, necessary for working in mines, which then had to be loaded onto lorries and transported to the mining areas. Not in OCLC." (Pickering & Chatto, cat. 799, lot 98).