DEMONSTRABLY on a bigger scale than a Keighley works, this ammunition factory was at Bridgeport in Connecticut, where an employee who seems to have had a local connection voiced another view on armaments production.
The photograph appeared on a postcard sent by somebody called John to a Miss A Emmett, of 23 Broom Street in Keighley.
It was undated, but relates to the earlier part of the Great War, while the United States was still neutral.
John wrote: “We are helping all the Countrys (sic) out but I’d rather them not then it would be over sooner.”
In other words, the Connecticut factory was supplying ammunition to both sides, which could only help prolong the war.
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