I was sent every day to Armoury Road in 1965-6 for basic engineering training and was always looking in the stocking shop, I half inched (google this phrase) a 30-06 and walked it out the gate up my trouser leg then lost my nerve and dumped it in a canal. I will be paying at the pearly gates for that one. My memory seems to say that the actions were made in the Redditch plant. But it was a long time ago.
My uncle was there during the war years and he told me that there was a direct hit on the main factory one night and a lot of folk were sheltering in the basement as they wanted to get back onto the overtime rates as soon as the all clear sounded, I think 175 people lost their lives when the building totally collapsed and they then rebuilt the factory on top of them without clearing away the bodies - as it was wartime and the government was in a hurry for replacing lost kit.
Martin
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