Shared Today by the Sherman Register: https://www.facebook.com/shermanregister/photos/a.3393181580760802/5185765468169062/ (Couple more excellent RAM/factory photographs on scrolling sideways.)
A Mighty Machine of British Workmanship. "This is what YOU are making posters " NARA website : Advanced Search: enter "control number" which is the NAID or National Archives ID. JPEG downloads can be quite large MB in size: the screenshot below is 716KB. The Bristol Hercules Sleeve Valve Engine: Control Number ( NAID ): 44266118 The Vickers-Armstrong Wellington II: 44266120 The Short Stirling: 44266122 The Handley Page Halifax II: 44266124 The Avro Lancaster I: 44266126
I've recently become mildly fascinated by the suspension of civvy car production in the US. ('139 civvy cars built 1943, 610 in '44' 3M+ before US entry in '41 ... maybe...) Late'44-'45 onwards - Aviation styling references abound. .
Beautiful car. That's the first new Caddy design since the war, made from 48 to 53. The 48 still used the flathead V8 and got the brand new OHV V8 in 49. Flathead and four speed automatic were the same ones used in the Stuart and Chaffee.
A battleship a week that is some going. Makes you wonder of Britain's manufacturing capabilities these days would we be able to produce such armaments should we find ourselves in a similar situation.
Recommended book if such industrial power has caught the eye. The statistics are mind-blowing. From nothing to square miles of production in the shortest of timescales. Book Review - Liberty Factory - Peter J Marsh
Andsco & von Poop, A day is a long time here: Yesterday there was a Tweet on BAE announcing it would no longer have the capacity to produce large gun barrels (155mm cited IIRC) and their USA plant would be available. I failed to locate this tweet. Any industrial capacity we have today in 2023 would be hampered by the decline in iron & steel production, lack of shipbuilding yards, lack of chip making plants (everything needs them) and much more. The current issues around shell production, with stockpiles run down after supplying the Ukraine, has appeared in the press. It is a problem for virtually every Western nation and it takes years to get such factories built, working 24/7 has problems too. BAE I think is the UK's only large calibre shell producer, with three sites operating on the various components. I recently read a FT journalist's article on the downside of vehicles going battery powered and the likely impact on the remaining engineering capacity. See: Beyond Gigafactories
"A battleship a week" is nonsense. It has to be using "battleship" to mean something like "armed vessel", in the same way that people can conflate tanks with other armoured vehicles. It might conceivably mean corvettes or other little convoy escorts.
Nice little original colour 3 part film on Morris Furnishings of Glasgow converting to knocking out rifle stocks.: WOOD GOES TO WAR [Main Title] Sadly no sound. Looks like Morris 'might' still be in business as furniture makers.