SHELLS FROM AUSTRALIA
BIG COMPANY FORMED By Telegraph—Press Associatlon-Copyrigi* (Rec. 'August 3, 1.30 a.m.) . Melbourne, August 2. , An important development in conec« tion with shell-making is tlia .formation of a. private company promoted by a number of loading men connected with the Broken ,Hill mines. TJio capital is £100,000 in £1 shares for the manufacture of high oxplosives. Tho titlo of tlio company is the "Broken Hill 'Munitions Company, Ltd." Mr. Dolprat, of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company fame, stated that- tho latest type of plant is capablo of making fifty high oxplosivo shells hourly, and has already been ordered by tho company. by cablo from _ Now York. .. . In ordor to expedite delivery the company has offered tho contractor £100 a week for ovcrv week ahead of contract time. Probably tho works will bo erected at Newcastle, close to tho Proprietary Company's works. Expert foroign sliolllnakers are to lie imported to teach tho Australians. The object of tho compaiiv is to turn out eighteen-pound-shells nit'd as much'other ammunition as the Goveaimsnt may. teguirs from time to tiii#,"
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2530, 3 August 1915, Page 5
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177SHELLS FROM AUSTRALIA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2530, 3 August 1915, Page 5
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