Hi Anneorac,
thanks for the prompt reply, sounds to me you can almost smell a new prop coming ?

Here’s his list of his work during the war, also a sample of the full record of a few prop blades that he recorded. I’m gradually going through his notebook and transferring it to hard disc but its a pig to type out. All of it is in fading pencil, and sometimes a bit hard to discern. I suspect he really recorded it in order to keep track of his earnings, but he did seem to be sometimes working 12 hour days and once a 15 hour work time, day and night shifts. WOW ! We forget what they had to put up with during the war.

I also have three attachments scanned of pictures from pages from ‘Illustrated’ Magazine dated September 1st 1944 taken of workers shaping and assembling props at ‘a’ factory.(secrecy then prevailed) Interested? or do you already have them ? Many thanks for your help.
VB

R A Robberts Record of Propeller Blades Shaped Between September 1st 1942 and December 19th 1944 at High Wycombe ?

Blade Aircraft Work Work Blades
Type Started Finished Completed

531 ? Sept ’42 May ’44 144

1140 Halifax ? Sept ’42 Oct ’42 25

739 Wellington ? Dec ’42 Dec ’44 381

230 ? Oct ’43 Apr ’44 9

291 ? Dec ’43 Dec ’43 1

902 ? Apr ’44 Dec ’44 48

940 ? May ’44 Dec ’44 147

220 ? Sept ’44 Dec ’44 1

Total 756
From September 1st 1942
531 blade 1550/47 +175 RS40 LE45
531 154434 +100 RS30 LE35
531 154972 +240 RS40 LE40
1140 151794 -540
1140 151848 -225 PS4 TE9
1140 151831 -345 PS6 LE9
1140 151626 -230 RS3 LE2
1140 152068 -680 RS5 LE10
1140 152520 -40 PS4 LE9
1140 152532 -115 RS3 LE12
1140 152098 -225 RS8 LE6
160965}
160879} not finished
1140 152499 +285 PS15 LE2 Weds 16th
531 155144 +50 RS34 LE42 Thurs 17th
531 155037 -120 RS42 LE48
531 154578 +125 RS32 LE44 Mon night 20th September
1140 151895 -75 PS7 LE10
531 155678 -150 RS38 LE48
1140 161225 +540 RS4 TE16 *
1140 152412 +40 PS8 TE6 Mon
(it goes on and on and on ….)VB