Ammunition factory in Tasmania

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Nice find Mike.

The development and use of the production facilities for the manufacture of artillery ammunition at the Tas Rail Launceston Workshops' Govt Annex is well covered in my new book 'Fire! The 25-pdr in Australian Service'.Both projectiles and fuzes (both unfilled) were manufactured in Tasmania, the latter by an annex at Henry Jones IXL company near Hobart,who were far better known for manufacturing jams and preserves.

Mike

Tassie was the ideal location for making brass shell cases considering the abundance of Copper and Zinc ores on the West coast and the associated smelting operations down there around the West coast. Although the landscape of the immediate surrounds of Queenstown now resembles the surface of Mars

More Tasmanian WW2 history https://archivesandheritageblog.libr...raid-shelters/