ORDNANCE FACTORY
I VISITED BY WAR MINISTER. PRODUCTION OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.32 a.m.) RUGBY, January 13. The Secretary for War (Mr L. Hore Belisha), visited the Royal Ordnance Factory at Nottingham, which is owned and managed, like the Woolwich Arsenal and where many of the modern anti-aircraft guns are being made. The main buildings were erected during the war and disposed of afterwards. They were repurchased in Sepember, 1936. and deliveries began in December. 1937. The factory now employs 3300 workers and is producing more guns than even in time of war.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1939, Page 6
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98ORDNANCE FACTORY Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1939, Page 6
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