MUNITIONS FACTORY.
BUILDING IN LANCASH IRtEv : •; SAFETY FOR THE TTORKERS. LONDON; -February 16, The King and Queen will walk nearly two miles inlmig underground , passages when His Majesty on March 14 opens the £10,000,000 ordnance factory at Cliorloy, in Lancashire. Its completion ends the world’s biggest and speediest building contract, which has' transformed raci'os; t)f countryside into more, than; '6OO muni-tion-filling buildings. Beneath the factory is a maze of bomb-proof, reinforced'Concrete, shelters and magazines electrically lighted,-= in which employees will be able to continue to work in perfect safety from air raids.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 128, 13 March 1939, Page 5
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