Royal Ordnance Works Make Peace-Time Goods
IX.Z.I'.A. SPECIAI, CORRESPONDENT] LONDON, August 11. Royal ordnance factories in Britain which during the war made bombs, shells and bullets, are today making refrigerators, furniture, and household lillings. There are now 40,000 men mid women working in 22 ordnance factories, but only half of them are employed in arms manufacture. At Woolwich Arsenal, for instance, railway waggons are being built and thousands of waggons are being repaired. Corrugated iron, originally intended lor shelters, is being turned info roofing and fences. In the pottery district, cartridge cases arc being turned into brass sheet, and in another area ammunition is being broken down to recover the steel, brass, and copper. Ammonium nitrate fertiliser is being made from explosives.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1947, Page 8
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