ONE GREAT FACTORY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20860, 12 August 1942, Page 3

ONE GREAT FACTORY

6000 BRITISH GARAGES MANUFACTURE OF TANKS Tanks are toeing assembled in Britain from parts made .in 6000 little workshops, many of them garages with little to do now that private cars are virtually off the road. Together they make one great factory which no air raid could put out of action. Planning the distribution of the work caused many a headache before production started. Each separate part, down to the smallest nut, has to arrive for assembly by tram or lorry from workshops* miles around at just the right moment for the assembly shops, where as many as 12 men may be required to work together on the heavier of the 50,000 operations involved. „ Because thousands, of separate operations are carried out m the manufacture of the parts, each little workshop has its own gauges, or measuring devices, precisely checked up to the same standard of exactitude so that any one part picked from a collected heap by the assemblers will fit to £ hair’s breadth. America is so impressed that h aeroplane factories are following Britain’s example by linking up an like fashion the small engineering plants of the United States.