INDIA’S FACTORIES
BUSY ON WAR PRODUCTION. (Received December 12, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, December 11. India’s contribution on the Empire war effort continued to’ increase during November. Jute mills are now making shells and production has been begun of new twenty-five pound shell and small arms ammunition for air warfare. Large quantities of electric cable have been produced for naval use, and the manufacture of light portable bridges in sections, not before undertaken in India, has now begun. A hand loom industry is being developed to meet a deficiency in millmade blankets. Service clothing factories manufactured during October half a million articles. A pre-war supply of five thousand army motor vehicles has been increased to about thirty thousand on hand, or on order, and the figure will be doubled nexl year.
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Grey River Argus, 13 December 1940, Page 6
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