5000 GUN CARRIERS
AUSTRALIA’S OUTPUT.
MELBOURNE, June 1
The five thousandth Australiandesigned machine-gun carrier has been handed over to the Minister of Munitions (Mr Makin). The carrier has been described as “the handymaid of all work” of the armoured divisions.
The malleable, bullet-proof plate of which the carrier is built is the 'invention of Australian [metallurgists. It is cheaper and easier to manufacture than any other armoured plate in the world and is now being. used in both Britain and America. The new plate requires none of the alloys previously stipulated for carriers, and is so malleable it can be welded instead of riveted. Revolutionary processes in production have alone made possible the Australian production of 5,000 carriers. Numbers have been exported.
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Grey River Argus, 2 June 1943, Page 6
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