The Archive · 1941

Mass Production

These latest additions to Amer'ca's rapidly rising mountain of defence materials are a sample of what the automotive industry can do in producing nqn-automotive defence products. Mr. Wilson said. They were not built in our regular production planís nor with our regular production machinery. but they are evidence of our mass production skill and know-how.

The G. M. machine gun assignment, the first such order given outside the small arms industry in the East, is alloted to four corporation plants in Michigan. Ohio and New York, Fifi other companies throughout East and Middle the West are furnishing parts and materials, All four plants expect to be in full production by" late fall. turning out 30 and.50-calibre Brownings. At Saginaw the Saginaw Steering ar Division plant has been run-on a production basis for about two weeks in a new five-acre, glass-walled building which will have its formal dedication April 23.

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