SIX THOUSAND GARAGES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 11 August 1942, Page 6

SIX THOUSAND GARAGES

BECOME ONE FACTORY FOR BRITISH TANKS Tanks are being 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 train or lorry from workshops miles around at just the right moment for the assembly shops where as many as twelve men may be required to work together on the heavier of the 50,000 operations involved. Because thousands of separate operations are carried out in the manufacture of the parts, each little work shop 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 a hair's breadth. America is so impressed that her | aeroplane factories are following Britain’s example by linking up in like fashion the small engineering plants of the United States.