BATS TO BUTTS
NEW JOB FOR BRITISH FACTORY. A North of England factory which used to make cricket bats has now turned over to producing butts and stocks for Tommy guns and rifles. It occurred to its manager when war broke out that his machines could be adapted for making the wooden “furniture” of- guns. The suggestion was pooh-poohed at first; but he won the day and got his contract. Today the machines which three years ago were turning out cricket bats are shaping four slabs of wood into four rifle butts in as many minutes. Other machines complete the 92 processes which are necessary before the butts and stocks go into the ammonia chamber to mellow. They are then treated with linseed oil. The craftsmen who made the cricket bats maintain that today, out of a pile of other rifles, a seasoned war veteran will still choose their work for its “feel.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1942, Page 4
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153BATS TO BUTTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1942, Page 4
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