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World War I brought a drop in the output of peacetime products. Huge sums were invested into expanding production capacities. By then, Škoda Works held majorities in a number of companies in the Czech lands and abroad that were not involved in arms manufacture. In 1917, the company had 35,000 employees in Plzeň alone.
The Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company built eleven classes of ships for the U.S. military. Of the 387 ships of those classes constructed nationally, 108 came from Kearny. Of the 415 World War II–era destroyers of all classes produced nationally, 69 came from Kearny. Light cruisers. Atlanta-class (2 of 8) – CL-51–CL-52 in 1940 – 1941
The works was very busy during the World War I shipbuilding boom, building boilers for Northwest Steel and Albina Engine & Machine Works in Portland, G. M. Standifer Construction in Vancouver, Union Iron Works [a], Schaw-Batcher and the Moore Dry Dock Company in San Francisco, Southwestern Shipbuilding and the Long Beach Shipbuilding Company in ...
Cincinnati Milling Machine received the prestigious Army-Navy "E" Award on March 6, 1942, in part through the efforts of the New Foundry and the other local foundries in supplying thousands of castings, which were used to produce 17,511 machine tools in 1942 alone to gear up for war. [11] Late in the World War II era, they dropped production ...
An example of one of the first tanks that were used in the First World War is preserved and on display in the Museum of Lincolnshire Life. This is a Mark IV. The tanks were described as "Water carriers for Mesopotamia" during production for security. The firm used the symbol of the tank after the war on other machinery they built as a trade mark.
[1] [2] In 1944, due to a contract with the federal government to expand production of supplies for the war effort, Birdsboro Steel established its weapons manufacturing subsidiary known as Armorcast. [1] [2] [4] Munitions produced by Birdsboro from the end of the Second World War up to the Vietnam War would be produced through the Armorcast ...
Germany went from 0.2 million tons in 1859 to 1.6 in 1871 and 19.3 in 1913. France, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, combined, went from 2.2 million tons in 1870 to 14.1 million tons in 1913, on the eve of the First World War. During the war the demand for artillery shells and other supplies caused a spurt in output and a diversion to ...
Following the Battle of Dunbar in 1650, 60 Scottish prisoners of war were sent to the Iron Works to work as indentured servants. 35 or 37 of the 60 Scots intended for the Iron Works were employed there, while the remainder were sold for between 20 pounds and 30 pounds each to various interests in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. [10]