NEW MUNITION FACTORIES
NEW BRITISH POLICY.
WORK COMMENCES.
Contract Let For First Of Factories.
Press Association—Copyright. Received 11 a.m. London. January 7.
Bi furtherance of its new policy of building four arsenals, the Government has placed an order amounting to £4,000,000 for the construction ot a new munitions factory at Chorley, with Sir Lindsay Parkinson and Co. The work is to employ between three arnd four thousand men, and begins in a fortnight and must be completed within two years under a penalty clause of £5OOO per week. After that time the job will be known as A.l, and the firm will thus received priority ot materials. The War Office is planning at least eight explosive or filling factories, all In distressed arsas, three ot which will be in the of Scotland.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 328, 8 January 1937, Page 5
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