An Oxford charity plans to employ more disabled people following the purchase of a Second World War wood chopping machine.
The Pathway Sheltered Workshop in Dunnock Way, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, has spent £1,000 renovating a 1938 wood cutting machine, donated to it by UK Fuels Express.
The machine was used during the war to provide wood kindling to power up warships using Plymouth harbour.
The Pathway Workshop, which makes wooden garden furniture, wants to use the 5ft 10in electric machine to chop up wood off-cuts into kindling.
A registered charity, Pathway was set up 19 years ago by Eric Johnson to provide jobs for disabled adults.
Today it employs 16 people with disabilities ranging from physical impairments and learning difficulties to mental health problems. Carole Newbigging, Pathway administrator, said: "This machine has revolutionised the production of kindling so much we are looking for further two disabled employees to help us."
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