ARMAMENT WEALTH
LANCS. BARREN AREA.
HUGE TOWN RISES.
BRITAIN'S LATEST FACTORY.
(Special.—By Air Mail.)
LONDON, March 26
In preparation for Britain's latest £7,000,000 armaments factory 8000 men are working night and day at Chorley. Lancashire; barren land is being transformed into a huge township and a hard
hit area is enjoying its first taste of prosperity. Forty giant excavators are moving earth at the rate of 150.000 tons a week. The biggest concrete mixing plant in the country is turning out 400 tons a day. It never stops.
Fifteen miles of concrete roads have already been laid. There will be 25 when the job is finished in January next Iyear. It is impossible to walk round the site in a day. Colonel George Parkinson, chairman of the contracting firm, said this week: "I tried it; I am a fast walker, but it beat me."
No one is allowed on the site without a permit. Even Colonel Parkinson had to get a special pass from the office of works before he was allowed to inspect his own job.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 98, 28 April 1938, Page 9
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