Weapons, 400-600 bullets a minute in machine guns, Gas masks made gas ineffective, Tanks got stuck in the mud and broke down, Machine guns overheated, 1 million shells fired during the Battle of the Somme, The wind would blow the tanks back in the wrong direction, War Work, Elsie Inglis sent 1000 female Doctors, nurses and orderlies to the front line, 12,000 worked in Munitions factories in Gretna making shells, bullets and bombs, 50,000 worked as cooks in the British Army, Tram Drivers in Glasgow, Royal Air force as mechanics and flew planes to airfields, women's land army- feeding horses and harvesting crops., Homes Fit for Heroes, 500,000 in 3 years- Addison Act, 25,000 council houses built be Addison Act, Tenements in Leith (Add Act), Chamberlin Act encouraged the private sector to build homes, 30,000 private homes built in Scotland, 75,000 homes built in Scotland under Wheatley Act, Wheatley Act got council houses built with gardens and indoor toilets.

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