MUNITIONS OUTPUT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 26, 9 March 1942, Page 6

MUNITIONS OUTPUT

BRITAIN'S RAPID EXPANSION EXPERIMENTS IN FACTOR! ES A small news item typifies the unconventional co-operation which is contributing to the rapidly-expand-ing output of munitions disclosed in Mr Winstone Churchill's House of Commons speccli. Office workers in various parts of J England arc doing Sunday work in arms factories. These experiments are likely to spread. In one factory in the Midlands, a managing director, two bank managers, clerk from Government offices, and girls from the firm's office arc working machines on Sundays where the skill required is only small. This enables the machines to keep up a seven-day week. Mr MiacMillan, speaking for the Ministry of Supply, describes an interesting little plan by which a number of industrial firms are, without profit to themselves, to launch and manage for an initial period some new shell-filling factories. When they have .brought the factories to full production, they will be transferred to Royal Ordnance factory 'management. 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 improvement of air-raid shelters, civic defence posts ,firc stations or static water containers.