Bombay, Feb. 3.
"Black smoke was belching from all the chimneys of the Jubbulpore gun carriage factory as I passed its carefully guarded gates to be shown the huge workshops where carriages for India's guns are constructed," writes Reuters special correspondent, "AN round was the roar of powerful machinery. When I entered the workshops the noise was almost deafening. In one of the workshops amid the fierce glow of numerous furnaces skilled Indian workmen were manipulating red hot metal with a casualness born of practice.
"At another workshop where final assemblage of gun carriages is done I saw one of the latest guns complete with a new carriage. The old wooden spoke wheels on the formidable weapon were replaced with heavy pu matic tyres. All the guns fitted with carriages in the factory are made in India.
"Since the outbreak of the war the output of the factory is two or three times that of pre-war production while the number of workmen has been doubled. Production is almost continuous, ranging from 20 hours daily in some shops to 24 in others. While the main work is production of gun carriages, the factory also makes a wide variety of other ar-tides, including field cookers for the Indian Army.
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