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BRITISH ARMING OUTPUT OF STILL DEVELOPING FACTORIES INCREASING (British Official Wireless.) Reed 2 p.m. RUGBY, Dec. 5. The production of munitions of all sorts iri Britain has been doubled during the past six months and the momentum of the munitions effort is still gathering pace. Plans now being executed will double this new output during the next six months. This rapid development has been made possible by the extension of old and the building of new factories, both Government and private. Already there are six times more Government factories than two years ago. Next year eight times the original number will be operating. So far the expansion of commercial concerns has been less rapid but some have doubled their muni-tions-producing plants and many have created new factories. Next year they may well outnumber the Government factories. Within a little over a year since the building of one Government factory began, it has now produced its first gun—a typical example of the rapidity of production of which Britain is capable.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20114, 7 December 1939, Page 7
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