I have two suits of 1938 vintage and a military overcoat made a year later.
The production of overcoats prior to the war was 500,000 a year, and the monthly production has now almost reached this figure.
The remaining £l would have been issued on the return by the man of his overcoat.
Pending the provision of a full supply of greatcoats, authority has been given for the local purchase of overcoats where necessary.
He might have been able, instead of denying himself, to buy a few more gramophone records, a new wireless set, or perhaps, an overcoat.
We are now equipping these men with overcoats, and we are going to pay their fares to musketry practice and training.
I am convinced that a sort of overcoat action of that kind would spell economic disaster.
He threw open his overcoat and came to the aim.
