American Toby Jug Museum 

Auxiliary Territorial Service character jug designed by Caroline Dadd and modeled by Zoe (Valerie) Annand, and produced by Royal Doulton of Burslem, England, in a 2005 limited edition of 250. In 1938 the British government established the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) to support the country’s war efforts. Attached to the Territorial Army, the first women recruited worked as cooks, clerks and storekeepers. After the outbreak of the Second World War the ATS was dramatically increased in size. By September, 1941, the ATS had 65,000 members. Their range of duties was expanded to include office, mess and telephone orderlies, drivers, postal workers and ammunition inspectors. ATS members served as volunteers until given full military status in July, 1941. On December 18, 1941, Parliament passed the National Service Act, calling up unmarried women aged between twenty and thirty. Women were not allowed to fight in battle but their duties extended to include radar operators, military police, gun crews, and many other operational support tasks. By the end of the war there were over 190,000 members of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, one of whom was a skilled driver and mechanic who went on to become Queen Elizabeth II. Driving gloves, a hammer and a spanner form the handle of the jug.