AUSTRALIAN INVENTION
BULLET PROOF PLATE PRODUCTION OF MACHINE-GUN CARRIERS (Rec. 12.15 p.m.) Melbourne, This Day. The five thousandth Australian designed machine-gun carrier has been handed over to the Minister of Munitions, Mr Makin. The carrier has been described as the “handymaid of all work” of the armoured divisions. The malleable bullet proof plate of which the carrier is built is the invention of Australian metallurgists. It is cheaper and easier to manufacture than any otner armoured plate in the world and is now being used in both Britain and America. The new plate requires none of the alloys previously stipulated for carriers and is so malleable that it can be welded instead of riveted. Revolutionary processes in production have alone made, possible Australian production of 5000 carriers Numbers have been exported.—P.A
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 1 June 1943, Page 5
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