We are making anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank guns and light howitzers, and will shortly be producing mor-lars, We make a complete range service explosives, and a wide var-rely of gun ammunition, shell bodies, aircraft bombs, hand grenades mortar bombs, also ammunition for rifles and machine guns, We also make, not only rifies, revolvers, and Vickers machine guns (both army and aircraft types) but the Bren gun is now being completely manufactured in An the first deliveries having been made four months ahead of programme time, Requiring, as it did, the preparation of 17,000 drawings and 73,000 tools and gauges, this latter is reg sar able achievement Zarly in the war we began the manufacture of armoured machine sun carriers, later we produced li tanks, and the manufacture of cruiser tanks is now well in hand, an undertaking which many regarded as impossible one year ago, Aircraft now being completely built and engined in Australia include the Australian-designed Wirra-way, the Tiger Moth training plane and' the twin-engined Bristol-Beaufort bomber. A locally designed trainer monoplane is shortly coming into production and a twin-engined reconnaissance bomber of Australian design is being developed.
As a foundation to all this industrial effort we have erected our own supply of precision gauges and machine tools, and ow making over 100 types of optical and other instruments required for the equipment of artillery, aircraft and ships These include for instance, such things as telescopic sights, stereos copies, clinometers and prismatic compasses,
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