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Meanwhile the Army is beginning to get 30-ton mediums. In the Armored Force, plans are already afoot to use a bigger proportion of the mediums (armed with 75 mm. cannon) and an improved M-4 model is soon to go into production (biggest improvements: a revolving turret for the...
Chrysler, turning out eight mediums a day, is headed for 15 by Christmas, and last week Chrysler told its stockholders that it is about to expand, to double that production. Like other manufacturers, Chrysler will go into M-4 production without slow-up. Last week American Locomotive Co. showed its...
By doubling the planned output of tanks, Franklin Roosevelt apparently meant turning out twice as many mediums, probably 2,000 a month when production hits its top. Indications are that, including lights, the U.S. may turn out around 2,600 light and medium tanks a month by 1942's...
Ford officials in Detroit last week confirmed a portentous rumor: Ford will go into the manufacture of Army tanks -mediums like those that Chrysler now turns out at the rate of seven a day. Fortnight before, General Motors had announced that it was also getting ready to build mediums.
If Hitler had not changed World War II's pattern by invading Russia, the scope of U.S. production as now set up might well have proved ample. The output of tanks, now around 400 a month, is well ahead of the Army's original estimates. Big contractors already...