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...starting lineup: lw, Arnold; c, Hamden; rw, McLaughlin; ld, Weld; rd, Coste; g. Wood...
...chromium-plated, .50-calibre aircraft machine gun, Britain-bound, was ceremoniously presented to U.S. Army and British officials last week by High Standard Manufacturing Co. in Hamden, Conn. It was the company's 10,000th gun, produced seven months ahead of schedule with salvaged secondhand machinery - an accomplishment Army Ordnance "didn't believe possible a year...
...Patent Fire Arms factory in Hartford was bogged down with other orders, High Standard just twelve months ago received a British order for 12,000 such guns. Tiny High Standard had World War I-seasoned talent,* but neither facilities nor tools. On a suburban weed patch in Hamden it built a seven-acre, modern steel & glass factory in four months. Into a market already picked bare, it dispatched its experts to find machine tools...
...Army's Watervliet, Rock Island and Springfield Arsenals they wheedled a little obsolete equipment; from many a New England textile factory they got a machine or two, one 75 years old. A few new ones, destined for already-fallen France, were lifted from the docks. In its Hamden plant, High Standard tore down the outmoded machines; redesigned, rebored, rebuilt them to fit its production line. On March 15 production began; on April 19 the first gun was finished. Production is now 150 a day. There has been only one reject...
Last November 14, a contract was signed. Gus Swebilius and his associates took a lot in Hamden, where the fire-ruined walls of a building stood. While a new 15-acre plant was abuilding, they scoured New England for old machine tools, cleaned up and in some cases rebuilt them in an old silk mill, rounded up skilled gunsmiths who had worked with Gus Swebilius during World War I. If they had waited for hard-to-get new tools, they would never have turned out their first guns last week...