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cycle-tube manufactory where they were erecting new workshops which when complete would cover the area from the canal bank almost to Red Lane. They forecast "Before many months are past 1,000 hands will be employed initially on making gun carriages for the War Office and
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and was handling an order for 12 inch mountings of one of the new battleships. While to that time the works had been manufacturing the smaller sizes of Naval Guns and
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to drive down prices. The new company bought (as from 1 January 1905, six months earlier) from
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operation for the first time the most costly and most important part of the company's new plant ending a long difficult period for
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