PLASTICS INDUSTRY
ADAPTABLE IN WAR OVER 120 ARTICLES MADE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 17 The plastics industry is proving as adaptable in war as in peace. Experiments with plastic materials to replace steel in Army helmets have shown that they can be produced more quickly and more cheaply in the former materials and that they are stronger, as well as lighter. More than 120 different articles are being made for war use by the British plastic industry.
They include bomb-release equipment, cartridge cases, certain types of bomb cases, rifle butts, mine-finding equipment, Army badges, searchlight control insulation, stocks for Bren guns, aircraft propeller blades and transparent hooding for gun turrets in aeroplanes. The plastics trades are also busy meeting demands from overseas Some firms have already reported that their exports of moulding materials and products were doubled during the first two months of the war.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20991, 19 December 1939, Page 8
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148PLASTICS INDUSTRY Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20991, 19 December 1939, Page 8
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