NEW ARMS FACTORY IN SYDNEY
Growth Of Commonwealth Industry SYDNEY. December 26. A new armament factory is being built in Sydney for the manufacture of army pistols for officers of the .infantry and the Air Force. The factor}’ will be one of the best and largest in the Empire, with an output of 3000 pistols a month, made from Australian materials of the highest grade. The expansion of the Australian machine tool industry since the outbreak of the war is technically one of the most significant developments in the Commonwealth’s drive toward self-sufficiency. The Department of Supply at Melbourne announced that more than 30 firms are at present turning out machine tools in every State of the mainland. The total number of machines and tools made or on order now exceeds 3300, and the value of this ■output is considerably more than £2,000,000. Adaptable as readily to the ends, of peace as to those of war, the machine tool industry will provide a solid base for post-war reconstruction of heavy industry in Australia.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 80, 28 December 1940, Page 10
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