TO TAKE OVER FACTORY
NUFFIELD ORGANISATION The Nuffield Organisation is to take over a £3,000,000 war factory at Eaglescliffe, near Stockton-on-Tees, for the mass production of tractors and engines and spares for cars.
This will mean permanent employment for 4000 people of South Durham.
The factory is one of the three biggest in North East England. The buildings and general lay-out were designed with a view .to a transfer to private enterprise immediately , the war job was completed.
This job was to salvage aluminium and other valuable light metals from crashed and obsolete aircraft. It is expected to last another 12 months. Hundreds of fighter planes ordered as a “rush job” at the time of the Battle of Britain went into the melting pots after making only test flights. They became obsolete before pilots could be trained to fly them. , i
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 57, 2 December 1946, Page 5
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141TO TAKE OVER FACTORY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 57, 2 December 1946, Page 5
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