6,000 GARAGES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 89, 10 August 1942, Page 5

6,000 GARAGES

HAVE BECOME ONE GREAT FACTORY FOR BRITISH TANKS Tanks arc being assembled in Britain from parts made in <3000 little workshops, main' of them garages with little to do now that private cars are virtually oil' the road. Together they make one great factory which no air raid could put out of action. Planning the distribution of the work caused many a headache before production started. Each separate part, down to the smallest nut, has to arrive for assembly by train or lorry from workshops miles around at just the right moment for tlie assembly shops, Avhere as many as twelve men may be required to work together on the heavier of the ,">0,()()U operations involved. Because thousands of separate operations are carried out in the manufacture of the parts, each little work shop has its own gauges, or measuring devices, precisely checked lip to the same standard of exactitude so that any one part picked from a collected heap by the assemblers will lit to a hair's breadth. America is so impressed that her aeroplane factories are following Britain's example of linking up in like fashion the small engineering plants of the United States.