A new form of War Weapons Week, devised by the Leatherhead and District War Savings Committee and since adapted for national use, has had striking results. Here each Savings Group in road, society, school or business firm runs its own War Weapons Week, aiming at saving enough to buy a particular weapon, such as a rifle (£7) or Bren gun (£50), which it has on show during the Week. In a 12 weeks drive 144 Savings Groups in this district which includes Ashtead, Bookham, Feteham and Leatherhead saved enough to equip a battalion. Their ordinary savings in one week would have amounted to only £770. They increased this to over £42,000, or over 54 times their normal-equal to more than a year's savings in a week. Bren and Antitank Gun demonstration in a timber yard at Great Bookham, Surrey, to members of the War Savings Group in the yard. It was hoped to provide £95 to purchase these two weapons, but so splendid was the response that this small Group raised £1,443 during, its War Weapon Week, enough to buy 15 Bren’s and 15 anti-tank rifles. August 29th 1941
