MERCHANT TONNAGE
EXPEDITED CONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN MASS PRODUCTION METHODS. ORGANISATION OF YARDS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. April 4. Mr William Westwood, formerly general secretary of the Ship Constructors’ and Shipwrights' Association, who has taken up duties in the new Admiralty department for speeding up the building of merchant ships, reveals a plan for the early mass production of merchantmen at unprecedented speed. The ships will be built ■ throughout Britain faster than the enemy can sink them. Each shipyard will build the type of ship it is best fitted to produce mqst quickly and most economically.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 5
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95MERCHANT TONNAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 5
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