"In that region we will have the infrastructure to produce food and munitions."
Russell produced munitions during the war, and manufactured automobile parts after the war ended.
The company also built a new factory at Swindon, and opened several other shadow factories around the country producing munitions.
With the onset of the war in 1939 the major engineering firms had to expand to produce munitions and other vital military equipment.
This can be achieved only by a completely new approach, applying to housing the same drive as was used to produce aircraft and munitions of war.
Many worked on the assembly lines of factories, producing tanks, trucks and munitions.
During its existence, the factory produced finished munitions including bullets, shells and mines.
Domestically, the state produced munitions in an army plant near Sellersburg.
It ran its own shipping line, and produced munitions in both World Wars.