The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-11

Conodion-Built Trucks
Service Army Of Nile
Cars, Trucks. Ambuloness Flow TO
Britain, AustvoIio, Indie end Egypt

Flow to
Indie and Egypt
Canadian navy. OF the 400 small
craft called for In the program
ammunition lighters, Diesel
launches, motor torpedo boats
and various auxiliary craft
more than half already have
been delivered. Construction Of
destroyers II planned. but when
the first keel will be laid u not
certain. se..s~~
Specifications are being COM
pleted for Is large freighters to
be built for Britain, and this Il
only q beginning; additional or
ders for merchant ships are ex-
pected to be placed shortly. II Is
not planned, however, to build
any new shipyards. The 80 ex-
listing yards, It Is explained. can
use all the skilled workers 1t
will be possible to recruit for
such work. At present the yards
employ about II, 900 men.
Aircraft production Is the ma
jor headache In Canada's war
effort. Canadian planes are be-
ing built. and many have been
sent to England, but they are
equipped with British or Amer
lean engines.
The actual number Of planes
(without engines) presently be-
ing turned out by Canadian fac
tories has not been disclosed. but
1t is understood to be somewhere
between 100 and $50 monthly.
The government has not aban-
doned the idea of building air.
plane engines in Canada, but
the difficulty of obtaining ma
chine-tools for such q project has
compelled its postponement until
the machine-tool situation clears
up.
Meanwhile. however, it is en-
phasized that there will be suf-
ficient planes to carry out the
commonwealth air training plan,
even on an expanded basis, since
planes ordered In the United
States are reported being deliv-
cred in sufficient quantity to
take care Of all needs.
Britain formerly shipped en-
gines to Canada for installation
in planes, but because of losses
of merchant tonnage, and restric-
ton of any transatlantic ship
ments which are not considered
absolutely vital, Canada is re-
lying more and more on Ameri-
can engine production.
This means that Britain will
concentrate on production Of
fighters and rely more on the
United States and Canada for
iong-range bombers which can
fly across the Atlantic instead of
being shipped. Production of
large, long-range .bombers for
Britain already has been stepped
up in the United States. Now
Canada, too, will stress produc-
ton of larger planes.
The Unsuitable appetite of q
great war Is illustrated in one
detail Of Canada's war produc-
ton. Contracts Of the Depart
ment of Munitions and supply
call for delivery Of nearly 1,000,-
100000 rifle and machine-gun
cartridges annually-enough to
kill every man, woman and child
In the world within the space Of
two years, II every bullet made
for war inevitably reached the
heart Of human being.
Another phase, production Of
chemicals and explosives, dwarfs
anything attempted by Canada
during the last war. The 1941
output Of explosives, says NUM-
tons minister Howe, will be al
most equal to Canada's entire
explosives output during 1914
10.
Most Of the new chemicals and
explosives plants win be In pro-
duction by July or August. One
Of them, already In production,
is scheduled to produce more of
a certain essential explosive in
one year than al Canadian
plants produced In 1014-18.
Some 5000 men now are en-
ployed on construction Of new
chemical and explosives plants;
the number actually making
chemicals or explosives In plants
presently operating 10 officially
described as several thousand"
In addition to projects financ-
ed by the government under its
500, 900, 900 chemical and ex-
plosives program, Z large pro-
duction Of explosives, chemicals
and pyrotechnic supplies II be-
ing obtained from private indus
try.
Little Of Canada's potentially
great war production will be a.
valuable In time for the spring
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