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Shadow Factories - Britain'S Production Facilities and the Second World War (Paperback)
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Wartime is costly. Whilst the human cost is a burden which remains
part of our every waking thoughts for many years after the end of
the conflict, the physical cost, at least in some cases, is easier
to deal with. Some, if not most of the physical cost of war, is
spent in the constant supply of materials including armaments and
machines to the troops- wherever they happen to be fighting. Of
course the Services have always needed supplies of uniforms,
equipment and machines. However, the rate of expansion of the
Services and the rate of consumption of armaments increases
dramatically in wartime. Pre-war traditional manufacturers simply
could not cope with the sudden increase in orders. The only
solution was to fabricate what was needed, in the Second World War
at least, in additional factories. Shadow Factories was the term
used to describe the use of third party factories and equipment
used to manufacture components or complete units which were then
passed on to the Services. These units could be anything from
tanks, parts of aircraft to small pumps or rifles. The list was
almost endless. Clearly it would be impossible to walk into the
nearest engineering shop and expect them to manufacture heavy
components. The railway yards were used to dealing with heavy
blocks of metals and so they were approached to help with heavier
vehicles such as tanks. Similarly the motor manufacturers were
asked to help out with producing trucks and jeeps, for example. Of
course this need necessitated formal contracts, and as far as
possible discretion so that the German bombers could not locate and
destroy vital sources of supplies. In some cases, such was the
level of secrecy that components for aircraft for example, were
fabricated in a number of shadow factories and assembled in a
different location. In that way the exact engineering drawings
could be more easily controlled and a stray bomb would only destroy
part of the plans and planes. Where relevant, examples are provided
from across the United Kingdom and cover an extensive range of
machines and vehicles. Some details will also be provided
concerning armament shells, some of which were made in one site and
filled in other facilities. The government departments were
certainly kept busy keeping track of it all!
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