Big 3.7-Inch anti-aircraft guns, built at Peterboro, are dependent on fuses from the General Engineering Co
Date30 June 1944
Names
Carroll, Betty
(subject)
Clark, Norma
(subject)
Cumberland, Sydney
(subject)
General Engineering Company (Canada)
(subject)
James, Norman
(photographer)
McNabb, Audrey
(subject)
Russell, Frances
(subject)
Toronto Star (Firm)
(publisher)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Big 3.7-Inch anti-aircraft guns, built at Peterboro, are dependent on fuses from the General Engineering Co. plant at Scarboro. Here a 3.7 ack-ack gun is shown on display at the Geco plant, being inspected by five workers, Frances Russell, Audrey McNabb, Sydney Cumberland, Norma Clark and Betty Carroll. One of these guns can throw hundreds of heavy shells every hour. Published in Toronto Daily Star, 30 June 1944, page 13, with title ''Geco Calls The Girls, 3,400 Needed To Fill Shells''.||The 364 acre Geco complex extended South from Eglinton Avenue East to present-day Hymus Road, between Warden Avenue and Birchmount Road, and consisted of 172 buildings. (43.724781, -79.282701)
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
Neighbourhood:Clairlea-Golden Mile
Province or state:Ontario
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0018945F
1 June 1944
10 January 1942
6 July 1944