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An Interesting Gun Fact
Ricci.Wright
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National Postal Meter's test fire range was built by raising the floor of the carbine manufacturing plant three feet above the buildings concrete floor and literally shooting under the feet of the production line. This was during WWII in Rochester,N.Y.
At the time of their first contract, the company had no tools, no employees, and no location for building carbines.
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guess thats the real meaning of " putting a fire under your feet "......
Interesting, thanks for sharing that. Back in those days, things were done in a more practical manner. Now everything has to be done with huge amounts of money, and have an "up town" result.
Heck! Now days it is not uncommon to spend a million bucks just to get through all the red tape before a shovel full of dirt can be dug!
different times for sure
my related story back in the late 1970's working construction we did some work ( well a lot of work ) on a old bank in down town Dayton Oh
in the basement was the huge vault of course and beside it was a for lack of better words a three sided box the wall of basement was two of the walls the third was the safe wall it made up a long wide room
after stripping off years of renovation and and dry wall the back wall had a lot of scars scuffs a older retired LEO was charge of the safe I would guess he was in his 60's at the time
he told me the local Police had used that area as a shooting range back in the day for many years that's why all the nicks in the walls but they had stopped back in the 50's maybe early 60's I think was when he said
Image going in to a bank and hearing gun fire now there were no vents or fancy layout just a open space I am sure they had some back stops made up funny now to think of such things
High Standard had an indoor range in their machine gun plant but I don't know where it was located.
High Standard accepted an order from the British purchasing agency for 10,000 .50 cal M-2 machine guns and they had no plant, equipment or personnel to produce the those 10,000 guns within a year. Time magazine did an article about the miracle of Gus and how he had done what was thought to be impossible.
Actually a lot of war contractors were making products they had no previous experience with and equipment to manufacture.
Ford Motor company built the largest factory, Willow Run, in the US to build the B-24 bomber. Ford bought the land and built the building and equipped with the specialized machinery on their nickel before the government came up with an entity to buy this from Ford which freed up working capital for Ford.
High Standard's Hamden machine gun plant was another of the many the government also bought. At the end of the war these government owned factories and equipment were auctioned off.