. Hardware merchandising March-June 1917. Scenes of Canadian Industrial Activity.— 1. Turret lathes operating on 18-pdr. shrapnel. 2. Press department for in. shell cartrige cases. 3. Steel in course of construction for office building in India. 4 and 5. Shell shop erectedcomplete in less than six weeks and which was producing shells three weeks after the first sod was turned. May 12, 1917 HARDWARE AND METAL—Export Section 89. General view of a section of the shipbuilding plant of the Poison Iron Works, Toronto, Ont. great class of skilled labor, competentto handle this work at
. Hardware merchandising March-June 1917. Scenes of Canadian Industrial Activity.— 1. Turret lathes operating on 18-pdr. shrapnel. 2. Press department for in. shell cartrige cases. 3. Steel in course of construction for office building in India. 4 and 5. Shell shop erectedcomplete in less than six weeks and which was producing shells three weeks after the first sod was turned. May 12, 1917 HARDWARE AND METAL—Export Section 89. General view of a section of the shipbuilding plant of the Poison Iron Works, Toronto, Ont. great class of skilled labor, competentto handle this work at the maximum ofspeed, was the most notable. Canadas Business in ShellsThere are now in Canada 650 fac-tories engaged in the manufacture ofshells; these factories are located inevery province in Canada, except PrinceEdward Island, and there has been in-stalled in these factories 18,000 new ma-chines that have cost the manufacturer$35,000,000, but as a result Canada isnow turning out every week 400,000 ofthe 18-pdr. variety including cartridgecases, fuses and propellants etc., in ad-dition to 400,000 high explosive shells of all varieties a total of 800,000 shellsper week. Benefits That Outlast the Activity All this specialized production is notto be classed as wasted effort even afterthe need for it has departed. It hasbrought a new element into the manu-facturing industry. It has standardizedboth products and skill. Every industrywhic
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