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Hiding a factory

Wow! And this was in the 40's!
 
I read somewhere they employed help from the movie industry. Painters, greensmen, construction.
 
Steve said:
Clever. The British could have done with some of that expertise.

Huh? You mean there isn't a thriving city hiding under the Pennines?
 
It would be very interesting to hear from someone who lived there then.....anyone from here???
 
Very interesting story, and great ingenuity...

Kind of on the same topic, but a different problem, was this tractor here...


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A little more off-beat WW2 history for you...

300 of these orange tractors (1938 Fordson Model N) were built in England to plow for the British war effort and were operated by British soldiers. Because of their colour they became targets of the German fighter planes so the British soldiers refused to drive them, so green tractors were built to replace the orange which were sent to Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The tractor is currently part of the collection of an Alberta farm museum...
 
Gov't contract - even back then - PORK!
 
Have you ever seen some of the pictures of what Germany had built underground, while being bombed day and night? By no means am I glorifying their war effort and the methods they used, but the engineering required was no less amazing than the Russians moving entire factories in the dead of winter and starting them right back up again to build machinery and weapons to fight the advancing German invasion.

Of course, we went from a isolationist nation with virtually no armament production to the salvation of the western world's war machine in less than two years. If that had not happened, we would never have had the automobile factories that dominated the 50-80's or the steel mills and mines that out produced the entire world when we built the greatest interstate highway system in the world.

All while rebuilding Europe and Japan at the same time.
 
Steve said:
Clever. The British could have done with some of that expertise.

There were a number of underground factories making munitions etc. during WW2 - I'm sure you can find them with Google or some such. Corsham and Chilmark were 2 of them.
 
We fooled the Germans into thinking an entire Army division was where it wasn't through huge mock vehicles, radio transmissions, dust on roads, etc.
 
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