"WINSTON'S TOY SHOP" NOW A HOSTEL
(Speeial Correspondent)
LONDON, Jan. 21. The experimental weapon station at Whitchurch, established by Mr. Churchill early in the war, which produced the Piat anti-tanlc gun and a number of other useful weapons, is to be closed and used as a hostel for German technicians who are working at the roeket research station at Westcott, ten miles away. The station was officially known as M.D.I. and had a secret establishment, but inside- the army it was known as "Winston's Toy Shop." "Ideas fc-r new weapons which were submitterl to Mr. Churchill, and approved, were passed by him to the "toy shop" for development. „
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5308, 22 January 1947, Page 5
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108"WINSTON'S TOY SHOP" NOW A HOSTEL Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5308, 22 January 1947, Page 5
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