SPEEDY WORK
PRODUCTION OF NEW GUN PLATFORM.
SPECIMEN MADE FOR TEST IN TWELVE DAYS. '
In twelve days a workshop in the English Midlands has produced _ an anti-aircraft gun platform of simplified design which has now been accepted as standard. The original design was a riveted construction of rolled stool sections, demanding many man-hours io make. A simple design of sheet metal construction, arc-welded instead of I’iveted, was suggested. The Government asked how long it would take to turn out a test platform. It was promised within 14 days. Four draughtsmen, working under the chief designer, produced the drawings overnight. Construction began in the morning and went on continuously day and night. In ten days the components were ready for assembly, and in two days more the completed platform was towed off for test—-48 hours before the stipulated date. After official tests, the simplified platform was accepted, within _ a month, as the standard design, with much saving to Britain in manpower, materials, machine hours and money.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1942, Page 4
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165SPEEDY WORK Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1942, Page 4
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