MUNITIONS MAKING IN REVERSE.—For years these girls have worked at top speed to supply Allied services with shells and tracer bullets. The whole-of the Royal Ordnance Factory, at Chorley, Lancashire, was geared to achieve the highest output possible. Now the problem is to get rid of the existing stocks, and an extensive programme of shell destruction is being carried out. Cordite is here being emptied from six-pounder shell cases. It will be taken out and burned in the open.
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Evening Star, Issue 25679, 31 December 1945, Page 6
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79MUNITIONS MAKING IN REVERSE.—For years these girls have worked at top speed to supply Allied services with shells and tracer bullets. The whole-of the Royal Ordnance Factory, at Chorley, Lancashire, was geared to achieve the highest output possible. Now the problem is to get rid of the existing stocks, and an extensive programme of shell destruction is being carried out. Cordite is here being emptied from six-pounder shell cases. It will be taken out and burned in the open. Evening Star, Issue 25679, 31 December 1945, Page 6
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