A great crowd of employees, officials and government personnel attended the milestone ceremony and saw the 100,000th Bren gun made in Canada handed ov(...)

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A great crowd of employees, officials and government personnel attended the milestone ceremony and saw the 100,000th Bren gun made in Canada handed ov(...)

Date8/20/1943

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John Inglis and Company (subject)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Unknown (photographer)

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Original Toronto Star caption: A great crowd of employees, officials and government personnel attended the milestone ceremony and saw the 100,000th Bren gun made in Canada handed over to Chinese officials. Every mention of China's war effort was greeted with tremendous applause. Officials said at least-one-third of the present production of 2,000 guns weekly, are destined for China

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