Defence Contractor
Defence Contractor: Guns, shells and small arms under contract. Armaments firms make guns, shells, cartridges and small arms for the War Office and the…
Guns, shells and small arms under contract. Fill the magazines, to contract, before the war does.
Armaments firms make guns, shells, cartridges and small arms for the War Office and the Admiralty, and for any foreign government the Board of Trade will license. Peacetime orders barely keep a works alive, and war orders swamp it. The explosives are dangerous, the factories are licensed and inspected, and the state's own ordnance factories are both your competitor and your customer's yardstick.
- Setup costs
- £2,700,000 to £27,000,000
- Competition
- Low
- Category
- Aerospace & Defence
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