USE OF PLASTIC MATERIALS
Value In War Time British Official Wireless RUGBY. December 16. The plastics industry is proving as adaptable in war as in peace. Experiments with plastic materials to replace steel in army helmets have shown that they can be produced more quickly and mere cheaply than the former and that they are stronger as well as lighter. More than 120 different articles are now being made for war by .he British plastics industry. They include bomber-release equipment.
cartridge cases, types of bomb cases, rifle butts, mine-finding equipment, army badges, searchlight control insulation, stocks for Bren guns, aircraft propeller blades anc transparent hooding for gun turrets in aeroplanes. The plastics trades are also busy meeting demands from overseas. Some firms have already reported that their exports of moulding materials and products were doublet during the first two months of the war.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21531, 19 December 1939, Page 7
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143USE OF PLASTIC MATERIALS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21531, 19 December 1939, Page 7
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