PAPER FOR GUNS
100,000 TONS IN MONTH
In a single month the local authorities of Great Britain collected 100,000 tons of waste paper for munitions. This record quantity was amassed by displaying to the public how the British industry turns the dustman's waste paper into ammunition for the guns: chewing it up by hot revolving knives, converging it into a thick liquid in huge containers which come out at last in long clean sheets of cardboard.
One used envelope is transformed into a cartridge wad: 12 old letters become a box to hold cartridges; 6 books, a mortar shell container; 2\ lbs. of waste paper make 448 washers for rifle grenades.
Bren guns, Lewis guns, 2inch mortars, Vickers guns, 'Tommy' guns and ordinary rifles are all now using in their ammunition the results of Britain's record drive.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 117, 20 May 1942, Page 5
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137PAPER FOR GUNS Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 117, 20 May 1942, Page 5
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