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Show Canada's Guns are Heard 'Round the World J ' iTtf vc,-.- 'l -V.V . ; qrc" CrIX "'I .... I - t,. .Y," It ml W "i A ,i ''. px N , - ' . r ; " 'f s ' THE roar of Canada's guns is being be-ing heard today all around the world, 011 land, on sea and in the air. Foreign to Canadian Industry before the war, gun manufacture is now being carried out in scores of plants from coast to coast. Heaviest land gun built in the Dominion is the mighty 3.7 inch ack-ack gun. Many of these- are defending de-fending England's coasts and cities from Axis air attacks. Canada is now manufacturing more than 1,000,000 shells every month, together with great quantities quan-tities of aerial bombs, trench mortar mor-tar bombs, and anti-tank mines. Production of shells comprises 28 types of 15 different calibres. A great variety and quantity of shell components are also made. In production pro-duction are 600-lb. aerial bombs, practice bombs, depth charges, anti-tank mines, grenades, pyrotechnics, pyrotech-nics, etc. Canadian factories turned out their 2,000,000,000th round of small arms ammunition during February. Small arms ammunition now produced pro-duced is of 22 types of nine calibres. cali-bres. This ammunition is made for every type of small arms being produced pro-duced in the Dominion. Both go to more than 60 different destinations in every part of the world for the many battlefields of this global war. The energy and productive facilities facil-ities engaged In the production of small arms ammunition may be gauged from the fact that one of these calibres alone the .303 takes more than 50 separate operations opera-tions to complete. Before the war 500 persons were employed making small arms ammunition am-munition in one plant. There are now 30,000 workers in two government govern-ment arsenals and plants being operated for the government by private industry. |