MACHINE-GUN CARRIERS
PRODUCTION IN AUSTRALIA f » MELBOURNE. June 1. The five-thousandth Australian-de-signed machine-gun carrier has been handed over to the Minister of Munitions (Mr N. J. Makin). The carrier has been described as “ the handymaid of all work ” of the armoured division. * 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 . other 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. R.evolutionary processes in production have alone made possible the Australian production of 5000 carriers. Numbers have been exported.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25241, 2 June 1943, Page 3
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