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Defence Department officials recently announced the award of a $1,900,000 contract to this Peterboro company for anti-aircraft searchlights chiefly for west coast defences
Defence Department officials recently announced the award of a $1,900,000 contract to this Peterboro company for anti-aircraft searchlights chiefly for west coast defences

Defence Department officials recently announced the award of a $1,900,000 contract to this Peterboro company for anti-aircraft searchlights chiefly for west coast defences

Date6/22/1941
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  • Defence Department officials recently announced the award of a $1;900;000 contract to this Peterboro company for anti-aircraft searchlights chiefly for west coast defences.
  • Defence Department officials recently announced the award of a $1,900,000 contract to this Peterboro company for anti-aircraft searchlights chiefly for west coast defences
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Original Toronto Star caption: Defence Department officials recently announced the award of a $1;900;000 contract to this Peterboro company for anti-aircraft searchlights chiefly for west coast defences.
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      The concave mirror of an anti-aircraft searchlight sends out beams visible 75 miles away
      The concave mirror of an anti-aircraft searchlight sends out beams visible 75 miles away
      James, Norman
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      Canadian coastal defence being rehabilitated at Halifax includes guns which can throw 380 - pound shells 15 miles, searchlight batteries, radar towers(...)
      Canadian coastal defence being rehabilitated at Halifax includes guns which can throw 380 - pound shells 15 miles, searchlight batteries, radar towers(...)
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      12/6/1948
      Big 3.7-Inch anti-aircraft guns, built at Peterboro, are dependent on fuses from the General Engineering Co
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      10/2/1944
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      Below this French church on the cliffs above Dieppe were Nazi forts, used as channel defences
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