OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 64, 17 March 1942, Page 1

OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS

CO-OPERATION IN BRITAIN London, March 11. Three small news items typify the ! unconventional co-operation which is 'contributing to the rapidly-expanding output of munitions. ■ Office workers in various parts of! England are doing Sunday work in 1 arms factories. These experiments i are likely to spread. In one factory! jin the Midlands, a managing direc-‘ tor. two bank managers, clerks from; from Government offices, and girls i ifrom the firm's office are working] machines on Sundays where the skill' jrequired is only small. This enables; the machines to keep up a seven-day! [week. Mr. MacMillan, speaking for; I the Ministry of Supply, describes an, interesting little plan bx which a'number of industrial firms are, with-! !out profit to themselves, to launch; and manage for an initial period some; 'new shell-filling factories. When they I ; have brought the factories to full production. they will be transferred to Royal Ordnance factory management. | j Arrangements have also been made, whereby during “lull” periods, civil! defence whole-time personnel may be; ; employed on necessary jobs, such as | |the construction, adaptation, or im-] ; provement of air-raid shelters, civic; [defence posts, fire stations, or static] water containers.