Question..electriclly tested Arty Ammo????

[Dean (Ajax)]

Sorry, I found over 600 photos..check out this link http://www.pada.ca/search/results/?txt_a=DIL

Also there are many more not on this site....A bunch were found of DIL Ajax in Shilo early this year or Late last year...I have seen them..but they are not on that website yet.....the archives here have a lot of DIL items..but the archives are being redone..so it is quite a mess right now..

DIL Ajax, was the largest shell filling plant in the Commonwealth..and perhaps the world..less Russia at the time....not bad for a place that was just farm land in 1938!!!

However..there are still many unanswered question...about the little things.
The 3 Shifts ( the women) wore Red for morning shift, white for afternoon shift and blue for late or night shift ( their headbands)
Just a neat bit of info.

Thank you again

Dean

[Marc Montgomery]

it is interesting to note that these plants had organized recreation facilities and even chapel(s).

in your archives link is a photo of a burned building.. From my expoloration of what was left of the huge Bouchard site, it is quite clear the individual buildings were all built quite far apart...for obvious safety reasons

[Marc Montgomery]

well I'll be .. searching for something COMPLETELY different and not connected with militaria and not seeking photos AT ALL..

i came across this !!! photos of the ruins of Camp Bouchard...presumably relatively (?) recent..

the attached photo shows some of the row of small calibre shell filling...or now that I think of it..more likely these were explosives mixing chambers
this would have been connected with photos 1=2 and 4 of the previous set

a link below to a couple other photos and the google earth map of the site

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/41022148