ORDERS TO CANADA
ARMAMENTS FOR* BRITAIN
SHELL BODIES AND MACHINEGUNS
(British Official Wireless.) (Received July 7, 11.20 ajn.) RUGBY, July 6. The Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, Sir Thomas Inskip, was asked in the House of Commons whether he could state what arrangements the Government had been able to make; for the manufacture in Canada of aircraft and other munitions. He said that the report of the recent special mission to Canada and the United States was under examination. As regards the manufacture of other munitions, orders had been placed in Canada for shell bodies and for Brenn machine-guns—the former direct with Canadian manufacturers and the latter in association with the Canadian Government. An order for explosives was also under consideration.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 9
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121ORDERS TO CANADA Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 9
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