# Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring

- By: Laura Knight
- Date: 1943
- Classification: Painting
- Credit line: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/15504
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruby_Loftus_screwing_a_Breech-ring_(1943)_(Art._IWM_LD_2850),_2026_upload.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Ruby_Loftus_screwing_a_Breech-ring_%281943%29_%28Art._IWM_LD_2850%29%2C_2026_upload.jpg/1920px-Ruby_Loftus_screwing_a_Breech-ring_%281943%29_%28Art._IWM_LD_2850%29%2C_2026_upload.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A young factory worker in blue overalls is shown at work on a industrial lathe, cutting and turning the breech-ring component of a Bofors anti-aircraft gun. Other factory workers are visible in the background.