SHELLS FOR THE AMERICAN NAVY
TO BE MADE IN BRITAIN. Washington, January 18. The Secretary of the Navy (Mr. Daniels) has given contracts to Hadfieids, Ltd., Sheffield, England, for shells for the United States Navy to the value of iover three million dollars (£600,000). American tenders were over two hundred dollars (£4O) per shell in excess of the tender of the British firm, and the period of delivery was double. —Reuter.
[Hadfields, Ltd., Hecla Works. Sheffield, are said to possess the largest manufacturing capacity in the world for projectiles of all types and calibres up to 16in.]
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2982, 20 January 1917, Page 7
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