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Show RAPID WORK IS DONE BY SHELL FACTORIES Instanca Is Given of the Prompt Delivery De-livery of a Bush Order of 5000 Projectiles. (Correspondence of the Associated Press) MANCHESTER, England, July 20. Two days after the British began their bis drive on the Somme, a rush order for 5000 shells was given one of the projectile pro-jectile factories in this district. So promptly was the order executed that the shells reached the British gunners in time to be used for smashing the en-emv's en-emv's first counter-attack. fliis shows how closely the munition plants are related to the front and gives an idea of the remarkable degree of cooperation co-operation that exists between the. shen-niaker shen-niaker at home and the soldier in the field. The story of this district s achievements achieve-ments In the manufacture of munitions, illustrated by the actual operations, was unfolded recently to a party of allied newspapermen, includins a representative of the Associated Press, which inspected the factories under the guidance ot officials offi-cials of the ministry of munitions. The partv saw a great industrial district, dis-trict, comprising the counties of Westmorland. West-morland. Cumberland, Lancashire, the whole of North Wales, and the Isle of Man, which had been converted Into a vast co-ordinated plant for the turniru? out of war material. Everywhere was evidence of how the factories, abruptly terminating their peace-time work, had cleared deck for war-time action. It was in June. 1915, that David Lloyd George, then minister of munitions, visited vis-ited Manchester and told the manufacturers manufac-turers anil business men lhat the country coun-try needed a huge supply of munitions and needed them at once. At that moment mo-ment the great demand was for shells. Thoy must be had, not six months hence, but 'immediately. The Manchester District Engineering Trades Emplovers- association called a meeting at once, at which non-federated firms also were represented. The chief question considered was whether it wa wiser to establish special national rm.n for the manufacture of shells, or to utilize the resources for the work available. It was decided to follow the second plan, as It assured quicker results. Textile manufacture Is the principal in-dustrv in-dustrv of the Manchester district, and at first it appeared that the machinery used in the textile factories was entirely en-tirely unsiiited to munitions production. But "by perseverance and ingenuity the textile machinists have contrived to adapt their machinery so well to the work that they are now the largest shell producers in the region. |