ARMAMENTS INDUSTRY
NEW FACTORY IN SYDNEY PISTOLS FOR OFFICERS (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyriglit) SYDNEY, Dec. 26. A new armament factory is being built at Sydney for the manufacture of army pistols for officers in the infantry and Air Force. The factory will be one of the best and largest in the Empire, with an output of 3000 pistols a month made from the highest srade Australian material. A Melbourne message says the expansion of the Australian machine tool industry since the outbreak of the war is technically one of the most significant developments of the Commonwealth's drive towards selfsufficiency. The Department of Supply announced that more than 30 firms were at present turning out machine tools in every mainland State. The total number of machines and tools made or on order now exceeds 3300, and the value of this output is considerably more than £2,000,000. They a/e adaptable as readily to the ends of peace as to those of war. The machine tool industry will provide a solid base for post-war reconstruction of heavy industry in Australia.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24492, 28 December 1940, Page 4
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