WAR PRODUCTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1942, Page 4

WAR PRODUCTION

CANADA AND UNITED STATES. BENEFITS OF CO-ORDINATED ACTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 24. The Joint War .Production Committee of the United States and Canada, in its first report, announced that the United States:munitions output had increased four-fold over that of 1941 and that Canada’s had increased three-fold. In both still sharper increases are anticipated. The figures were for the second quarter of 1942. A summary of progress revealed an increasing standardisation of' the 'weapons of the two countries and a faster exchange of supplies, thus averting production delays, eliminating tariff barriers and increasing the exchange of production information. In one instance, Canada was saved the expense of plant expansion for a critical chemical material because the United States was able to contribute supplies. Canada shipped half a million each of shell bodies, fuses and tracers for a certain type of gun to the United States during a period infwhich Canadian supply was ahead of schedule. Reciprocally the United States shipped 150,000 body castings for a certain type of shell, enabling Canadian plants to load and siiip on schedule. As a result of the United States Maritime Commission ordering steel plates for Canadian shipbuilding, several 10,000 ton merchantmen will go down Canadian ways in 1942.