AERIAL BOMBS
PRODUCTION IN CANADA. HUGE PLANT BEING ESTABLISHED. OTTAWA. Production in Canada of 500-pound aerial bombs will be started next February in a huge plant now being completed “somewhere in Quebec,” the. Minister of Munitions and Supply, the Hon. C. D. Howe, revealed. "Normal output of the plant will be well over 100.000 bombs a year.” he said. “This will, be the first time that aerial bombs of any kind other than a comparatively few practice bombs, have been made in a Canadian factory.” The Minister's statement said Canadian plants will be ready “within a very short time” to begin manufacture of a large quantity of two-inch and three-inch trench mortar bombs and .303 rifle grenades. Plans are also under, consideration for the production in Canada of anti-tank mines and depth charges. This type of munition has never before been made in Canada.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1940, Page 9
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