NEW ARSENALS IN BRITAIN
♦ WOOLWICH TO BE REPLACED BUILDINGS ON WEST COAST WORK ON AIR DEFENCES TO IMS ACCELERATED (UMITKD FAB3S ASSOCIATION—COFI'RIGHT.) (Received December 29, 10.15 p.m.) LONDON, December 28. Four big new arsenals on the west of England will take over the explosive work carried on at Woolwich, according to the "Daily Herald." It is expected that work will begin early in the new year on the first, situated outside Chorley, where £5,000,000 will be spent on a site bigger than Hyde Park, and on buildings and railway sidings. Other arsenals will be located at Bridgend, in Glamorganshire, at Irvine, in Ayrshire, and at Hereford. Simultaneously, work on the air defence line along the east and south roasts, from Northumberland to Dover and Portsmouth, will be speeded up. Woolwich will in future be restricted to non-explosive non-in-flammable work. No t serious dislocation of labour is anticipated. Smaller shadow munitions factories, to be used only in war time, are being prepared in Worcestershire and Durham.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21978, 30 December 1936, Page 9
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