BRITISH MUNITIONS
Private Manufacture a Failure LONDON, June 20. At the arms inquiry Dr. Christopher Addison, who was Minister of Munitions in 1916-1917, gave evidence that the first nine months of the war proved that the private manufacture of arms was a tragic and perilous failure. Up to May the Woolwich arsenal alone delivered supplies as promised. Private firms’ deliveries were terribly in arrears, and the armies were so meagrely supplied that defeat was narrowly averted by the soldiers’ heroism in the face of great disadvantages, coupled with the success of the Woolwich arsenal. Dr. Addison revealed that national factories to April, 1917, produced ammunition components costing £33,000,000. If bought at contract prices, they would have cost £42,000,000. The Ministry of Munitions introduced a costing system resulting in the cost of shells supplied by certain manufacturers being reduced by £400,000 a week.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 159, 21 June 1935, Page 7
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