WINSTON’S “TOY SHOP” IS TO BE CLOSED
(Special N.Z.P.A. Correspondent) Reed. 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 21. The experimental weapons station at Whitchurch, established by Mr. Churchill early in the war, and which produced the Fiat anti-tank gun and a number of other useful weapons, is to be closed and used as a hostel for German technicians working at tiie rocket research station at Westcott, seven miles away. Tlie station was officially known as the and had a secret establishment, but inside the Army it was known as “Winston’s toyshop.” Ideas for new weapons, which were submitted Churchill and approved, were passed by him to the “toyshop” for development.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 22 January 1947, Page 5
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