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IMPRESSIVE PROGRESS MADE IN BRITAIN CONVERSION OF FACTORIES. DEAF MUTES DOING USEFUL WORK. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, October 4. A Press party today visited a factory somewhere in the Midlands where anti-aircraft shell cases are being turned out. It is typical of a hundred factories throughout the country which till recently produced cycles, cars, locomotives and textiles. Now. according to a detailed plan prepared in 1934, they are producing war materials. Even small garages at seaside resorts have been mobilised. The average rate of production ol these factories is faster than .the best in the last war, and the number of operatives is halved. The steel at the factory visited enters in blocks at one and emerges later as shells correct to a millionth of an inch.
The process includes a room where shot-blasting creates such a din that it is necessary to employ deaf mutes, who are unanimously delighted that they have been found a place in the nation’s efforts.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1939, Page 7
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163ARMS PRODUCTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1939, Page 7
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