Southbend Lathe

[45jim]

I have also seen a test gun used to proof ammunition (now used for ballistic testing) that was marked as shared property. It had been in service in Quebec throughout the war and ended up in Ottawa at the National Research Council (who also ran Chalk River). From the documentation we found attached to the gun and speaking to NRC, it seems the UK paid 50% of the cost to set up small arms ammunition manufacture early in the war and used the gun to proof ammo.

This was before the creation of AJAX Ontario, the city created for the sole purpose of ammunition and ordnance manufacture. I believe the Nicollet Quebec facility (now owned by General Dynamics) that still produces Canadian ammunition was part of that deal.

[chris vickery]

Yes Jim, from the bit of digging I have been doing, it looks like DIL was a branch of British Munitions Company who set them up.
Ajax ON was also known as Dilville, a nickname bestowed by the workers who were employed in that area by DIL.