CRICKET BATS OF 1939
HAVE BECOME RIFLE BUTTS IN 1942 A. North of England factory which used to make cricket bats has nowturned over lo producing butts and stocks for Tommy 141 ms and rifles. It occurred lo its manager when war broke out that his machines could be adopted for making the wooden "furniture" of jiuns. The wa* pooh-poohed at iirst' but he won the day and h:; contract. To-day the v- hieh ikrea years ago were turning oui cricket bats are shaping' four siabs of wood into four riiie butts in ;r- many jijinnte>. Other machines complete the 92 processes which are necessary before the butts and stocks 'So into the ammonia chamber to mellow. They are then treated with linseed Oil . The craftsmen who made the cric-t ket bats maintain that to-day, out of a pile of other rifles, a seasoned war veteran will still choose their work for its "feel."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 74, 6 July 1942, Page 6
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154CRICKET BATS OF 1939 Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 74, 6 July 1942, Page 6
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