ANTI-TANK GUNS
AUSTRALIAN ENTERPRISE. The output of anti-tank guns recently begun in Australia is described by the Minister of Munitions (Senator Phillip Mcßride) as "an engineering record.” The manufacture is being carried out entirely by private industry and it is the first time that guns have been produced in the Commonwealth outside a Government factory. The new gun is from a famous British design which played havoc with armoured vehicles in Libya and Greece, and will fire armour-piercing shells made in Australia in enormous quantities. The gun represents a great co-opera-tive achievement, as no less than GO engineering firms spread over three States have combined in its manufacture. Most of the tools and jigs for fashioning the 3.500 parts in the gun had to be designed and made in Australia before production could begin.; All the steel used is being made ini Australia. I
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1941, Page 7
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144ANTI-TANK GUNS Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1941, Page 7
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