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Before the war Canada. manufactured no guns. Today it is one of the most import- Quantity production is now under way on the two-pounder anti-tank to $7,500, fires an armour-piercing shell designed to rip into the ant contributors to the artillery of freedom. These Canadian-made twelve- gun. ‘There are 500 parts in each of these weapons and their manu- interior of a tank or destroy its metal tracks. More than 2,000

pounder guns will help protect the Empires merchant shipping. facture requires a high degree of skill. The gun, which costs close workmen are employed in the two plants producing them.

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Twenty-five pounder field guns oi‘ the most modern turned out at an average rate of fifty per month. The Mountings for Vickers machine guns are being made hundreds of factories large and small have been design are being produced at the big plant of Sorel complete process-dram scrap iron to finished gun-is in an Ontario plant originally meant to be a shoe enlisted into the industrial war effort, The guns l Industries, Ltd., in Quebec Province. They are being done at the one plant. Each gun costs $25,000. factory. Its transformation is an example of how themselves will be in production early in 1942-

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Capabl otmflrtng 135 40-mm shells a minute, the Botors light anti-aircraft gun Mountings or two-pounder anttaircrait pom-pom guns Canada builds two-inch and three-inch trench mortars as well as such snlnll arms l is a formidable weapon. It has 2,000 individual parts and is made, comp eta are being made in Can-mda. The 9,1121 i1s*‘f will be ready as Bren and Browning nlachinc guns and Lev-Enrich! rifles. These photos were | with mounting, in one plant. The Boiors hurls it shell to an altitude of 20,000 ieet. , for production at the ling-lining of the year. made by Harry Rowcd, staff photographer oi Public liliormation. r Q