WAR SUPPLIES
CANADA’S CONTRIBUTION REMARKABLE INCREASE (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Sept. 29. (Received Sept. 30, at 7 p.m.) A picture of the ever increasing Canadian contribution to war supplies is contained in the' letter of a well-known Canadian, who states- “ We are well on the wav to manufacturing tanks and we are already turning out machine-guns and field artillery. We are tuning up for the manufacture of rifles and naval guns. We are turning out prodigious quantities of explosives and shells, and our aircraft plants have taken over most of the burden of supplying training planes for the Commonwealth air training scheme." The Canadian Ford and General Motors plants, he adds, are turning out about 600 units a day and Canada is at the present time the world’s largest producer of army vehicles. The air training scheme already has several thousand pilots in training and he describes it as “ a prodigious undertaking.” which is “ changing the face of the Canadian landscape.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24417, 1 October 1940, Page 7
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