MACHINE RIVETER
TESTS IN U.S.A.
SPEEDING PLANE BUILDING
(Received February 7, 1.30 p.m.)
DETROIT, February 6.
.Defence officials were today astonished by a revolutionary machineriveting process which is now under experiment. Enabling the elimination of hand riveting in aircraft, the new process will cut time and labour by. 50 per cent, and eliminate the greatest aircraft bottleneck. The system was tested under close guard and watched only by Army officers and Defence Commission experts.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 32, 7 February 1941, Page 8
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74MACHINE RIVETER Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 32, 7 February 1941, Page 8
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