GREAT AUSTRALIAN ORDNANCE DEPOT
Melbourne, Nov. 24/ The existence of Australia’s greatest ordnance depot near Albury, at the junction of the N.S.W. and Victoria State railways systems, has been officially revealed. The depot, which covers more than 2000 acres of former bushland, has been built in the last two years at a cost of millions of pounds. Storehouses are packed with millions of pounds worth of material representing the bulk of United States lend-lease ordnance supplies. The depot also has a huge motor transport park. An inland site for the depot was selected at the time when an attack on Australia by Japan was feared imminent. Nearly 20 miles of spur lines have been built to accommodate trains from New South Wales and Victoria.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 25 November 1943, Page 3
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124GREAT AUSTRALIAN ORDNANCE DEPOT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 25 November 1943, Page 3
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