"did australia manufacture bombs for aircraft ww2" Topic
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| wardog | 07 Feb 2010 1:04 p.m. PST |
did australia manufacture bombs for aircraft in ww2
or were they imported from britain
if australia did ,were they copies of british bombs and which models/sizes produced |
 John the OFM  | 07 Feb 2010 1:10 p.m. PST |
Just guessing, I would think that bombs would be an ideal product for local manufacturing.
British shipping was stretched to the utmost, and it would be very wasteful to ship something halfway around the world that could be easly manufactured there, |
| artaxerxes | 07 Feb 2010 2:10 p.m. PST |
Have a look at Butlin and Schedvin, War Economy (2 vols) in the Australian official history. Long and rather turgid, there is a lot of data and detail in A.T. Ross, Armed and Ready: the industrial development and defence of Australia, 1900-1945. |
| Wargamer Blue | 07 Feb 2010 4:41 p.m. PST |
Australia had dozens of munitions factories, mainly based in Victoria and New South Wales. All munitions were licenced copies from the Brits. |
| McWong73 | 07 Feb 2010 5:47 p.m. PST |
Not all munitions were, the small arms stuff certainly wasn't. |
| Wargamer Blue | 07 Feb 2010 8:39 p.m. PST |
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| RockyRusso | 08 Feb 2010 12:27 p.m. PST |
Hi Actually, there were teams of experts on all sides that identified which small arm rounds worked with which weapons. In the case of things like 20mm, 37 and 40mm, all were originally krupp and usually interchangeable. The german aircraft used electric primers, but otherwise, there was a lot of compatability. All 303 was the same as another issue. Rocky |
| artaxerxes | 08 Feb 2010 2:35 p.m. PST |
Sorry Rocky, but have you got the right part of the world mate? I don't think the *Austrians* had vegemite (which is why they lost the war). |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 08 Feb 2010 5:51 p.m. PST |
definately why they did so badly,, |
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