MAKING MUNITIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 February 1942, Page 4

MAKING MUNITIONS

RAPIDLY-EXPANDING OUTPUT. News items tyjoify the unconventional co-operation which is contributing to the rapidly-expanding output of munitions disclosed in the Prime Minister’s recent speech. Office workers in various parts of England are doing Sunday work in arms factories. These experiments arc likely to spread. In one factory in the Midlands, a managing director, two bank managers, clerks from Government offices, and girls from the firm’s office are working machines on Sundays where the skill required is only small. This enables the machines to keep up a se-ven-day week. Mr MacMillan, speaking for the Ministry of Supply, describes an interesting little plan by which a number of industrial firms are, without profit to themselves, to launch and manage for an initial period some new shell-filling factories. When they have brought the factories to full production, they will be transferred to Royal Ordnance factory management. Arrangements have also been made whereby during “lull” periods, civil defence whole-time personnel may be employed on necessary! jobs such as the construction, adapta-j tion, or improvement of air-raid shelters, civic defence posts, fire stations, or static water containers.