BIG ORDNANCE DEPOT
2000 ACRES AT ALBURY (10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Nov. 25. The existence of Australia’s greatest ordnance depot near Albury, at the junction of the New South Wales and Victoria State railway systems, has been officially revealed. Tihe depot, which covers more than 2000 acres of former bushland, has been built in the last two years at a cost of millions of pounds. The storehouses are packed with tens of millions of pounds worth of material representing the bulk of United States lendlease ordnance supplies! The depot also has a huge motor transport park. The inland site for the depot was selected at a time when an attack on Australia by Japan was feared imminent. Nearly 20 miles of spur lines have been built to accommodate trains from New South Wales and Victoria.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21261, 25 November 1943, Page 3
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134BIG ORDNANCE DEPOT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21261, 25 November 1943, Page 3
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