AUSTRALIAN GUNS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 February 1941, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN GUNS

PROGRESS WITH BREN TYPE. FINAL FIRING TESTS 'The first batch of Bren light machine guns manufactured in Australia have passed final firing trials nt the Commonwealth Small Anns Factory. Lithgow iNSW i, and Bren guns of 100 per cent Australian manufacture are now m rapid production. To establish rmmufaCtUre. no less than ,-fi-l-l tool-, gauges, etc. are necessary, each made from high grade steel to a precision ranging from one thousandth l<> one test thousandth of an inch Today there are 37 firms engaged in this work. 22 in New South Wales, JO ;n Victoria. 1 in South Australia and one* in Queensland 1 --nut. one of which hud undertaken high, precision work of the special character two years ago 'flit- zXm.tr.Uian steel industry under-to.-k ordei . for -.peeml types of steel .rd hi.', been tge i<. rnainlmn deliv- •: r;e . Members of the British Supply Mm ■ »un. m vestigat mg munitions production .n Aii.uralm ami New z'.< aland. Will take :.■■ m.p Souvenir of hislor.c t.duc to England fur the aide ivef. of the British Minrury of Supplj. :i>e cartridge <.. c of the firs', round of ammumtiun fired fr>.m an The Mission regards the Lithgow factory in New South Wales ns comparable m managerial direction, lay epmpmei • .-.nd technical skill of ..tatf ami operatives with th-- Royal Srr;;-,’l Arms Factory. Enfield, . ' which j the Bren rue w.c. Ived .<('.< r .J i .sh -itiei dm- ta-ru-d of <•■<; <-■Hirn' ' ' ■ ■ ’ even m- drb prMmd ’ . ’ •’. i ’/I b>u