MUNITION-MAKING IN AUSTRALIA
New South Wales munition factories are working 24 hours a day in a gigantic effort to speed up the Australian war machine. Workers in heavy industry, skilled technicians, and engineers in essential positions in the munitions industry are now being released from the army to return to their old trades, to back up the boys who are fighting for Australia’s defence at home and abroad. All this increase in production follows on the appointment of Mr Hassington Lewis as Director-General of Munitions Supply. Strong, capable, energetic and far-sighted the Director-General is forging ahead with a mighty munitions programme. Top General purpose 2501 b bombs being capped with paper to protect varnish from dust. Centre—Barrel liners for 3.7in. anti-aircraft guns on the lathes. Below—A worker in the chain punching holes in steel helmets ready to be fitted with inner headgear. The pile of helmets in the foreground gives some idea of the number manufactured.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21200, 24 August 1940, Page 18 (Supplement)
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