STRENGTH & POWER
IN WELDED AMERICAN TANKS MASS PRODUCTION WELL UNDER WAY. BIG CONTRIBUTION TO TOTAL PROGRAMME. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 3. The War Production Board has disclosed that a new Mid-Western plant is now mass producing M 4 medium welded tanks, which have greater strength and safety and a lower silhouette than others. The tank carries a major weapon, a 75 mm. cannon, mounted in a revolving turret. The Director of War Production, Mr Harrison, said thousands of the all-wel-ded tanks would be built this year, making up a large part of the 45,000 scheduled by President Roosevelt.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420304.2.33
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1942, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
105STRENGTH & POWER Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1942, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in