WAR INDUSTRIES
CANADA’S MIGHTY EFFORT. HUGE & VARIED OUTPUT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 29. A picture of the ever-increasing Canadian contribution to the war supplies is contained in the letter of a wellknown Canadian, who states: “We are well on the way to manufacturing tanks. We are already turning out machine-guns and field artillery. We are tuning up for the manufacture of rifles and naval guns. We are turning out prodigious quantities of explosive shells. Our aircraft plants have taken over most of the burden of supplying training planes for the Commonwealth air training scheme." The Canadian Ford and General Motors plants, he adds, are turning out about 600 units a day and Canada, he says, is at the present time the world's largest producer of Army vehicles. The air training scheme, the writer states, has already several thousand pilots in training, and he describes it as “a prodigious undertaking” which is “changing the face of the Canadian landscape.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1940, Page 9
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