WAR CAPACITY

Evening Star, Issue 24290, 3 September 1942, Page 4

WAR CAPACITY

BRITAIN'S ENORMOUS POTENTIAL (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. noon.) RUGBY, Sept. 2. Britain’s enormous productive caps* city and the important part her factories are playing in the war effort of the United Nations is shown by figures quoted by a London economic expert. Since the outbreak of war,_ he said, the British .and! Dominion Navies have had delivered to them at least 500 fighting ships, excluding mine sweepers ami motor gunboats—this in addition to the production of merchant tonnage, repairs to ships, and conversion of _ merchant ships to war uses. Tanks, jeeps, and other mechanical vehicles are being produced at the rate of 257,000 a year; ammunition for big guns at the rate of 25.000. rounds; for small arms 2.000. rounds. Guns, from Iwopounders upwards but excluding antiaircraft, are produced 6,000 yearly. During the last year, 9,781 aircraft and 3,000 .tanks have been sent overseas, and 2,134 aircraft and 2,000 tanka imported. ' ' ' ’ , . By June of 1942 2000 tanks had been sent to Russia. ~ , , These results hadl been achieved by intensive mobilisation of the people, including women, who were playing ft major part in the munition factories.