NEW MUNITIONS FACTORY
GUARDED BY MILITARY “FEAR OF BOMBINGS ’ lU.P A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright! LONDON. 25th January. Three hundred soldiers travelled secretly at night on Tuesday from their camp in the south of England to guard the Government new £10.000.000 munitions factory at Euxton. Lancashire. It is officially admitted that they were sent because of fear of bombings. The factory is nearing completion and is in partial production. Five thousand men were employed on its construction, day and night, (or two years. The site covers nine hundred acres, and the building involved laying forty miles of drains, fifteen miles of concrete roads, and fifteen miles of railway*.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 January 1939, Page 2
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