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\\ ~rld largest, astest, and most devastating heavy Truly a battleship of the air, the Lancaster has a engines and turrets as one. Top illustration gives Engines, of which there are four, are famed Roll Luiiiliei; the Lancaster, is being produced in Canada. wingspan of 102 feet. Exclusive of rivets, nuts and an idea of tremendous task involved in building the

s- ' llcrr. lloh Burns bores holes inside giant sky bird. bolts, plane has 50,000 different parts, counting Lancaster. In bottom picture, huge 69-ft. fuselage.

Royce Merlins,_ only components of Lancaster which are not made in the Dominion. Note gigantic wheel.

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(hwci-iimviit-owiier Victory A ‘craft Limited, Malton, Ont., builds Lancaster, Thousands of man-hours are required to put the half- Alvin Cox, whose brother, Harry, is in the R.C.A.F., welds one of the plane's (‘iiipl(i_\z~' 5,000 persons, requires as many more within next year. Plant has

_ . million dollar bomber in the air. Plane is a_ maze huge bullet-proof tanks. Lancaster carries six tanks with total capacity 0f Yiliiiili sqiiziri: feet of "floor space. Florence Orr wires instrument panel. of wiring and tubing. Above, lola Allen, a. riveter. 2,000 gallons. Its maximum spee

d is 300 m.p.h., maximum range, 3,000 ‘miles-

_ Spitfire fightel; minus Wings. would ‘fit easily l first Canadian-built Lancaster was flown yesterday, A Lancaster is brought out of the plant. Harvard Lancaster presented problems similar to those which 1n 33-ff- bomb bay of mighty Lancaster. Maximum bomb 16 months from the day blueprints arrived in Canada, trainer in background is dwarfed by mammoth bomber. would confront a Canadian shipyard required to stop load i? 3 10118. equal to the weight of 5 automobiles. a truly outstanding Canadian production achievement. Switching from production of Ansons to that of the building corvettes and turn out huge battleshiPi-

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