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BACKROOM BOYS
A nickname given to scientists and boffins -and specifically to those relied on to produce inventions and new gadgets for weaponry and navigation in the second world war. Compare THE SMALL BACK ROOM, the title of the novel (1943) by Nigel Balchin.
The phrase was originated, in this sense , by Lord Beaverbrook as minister of aircraft production when he paid tribute to his research department in a broadcast on 19 march 1941: 'Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the backrooms and not for the man who sits in the limelight and in prominent places. it is the men in the backrooms.
There we get the phrase
The phrase was originated, in this sense , by Lord Beaverbrook as minister of aircraft production when he paid tribute to his research department in a broadcast on 19 march 1941: 'Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the backrooms and not for the man who sits in the limelight and in prominent places. it is the men in the backrooms.
There we get the phrase
