The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Fairfield, Vic. c. 1942. Two women at work in the control centre at the Department of Aircraft Production, Beaufort Division's Fairfield stores complex. Machine tools and gauges form a major part of the production equipment for modern industry and in the early stages of the war these components were in short supply and were imported. Although the initial aircraft were constructed from imported and locally manufactured components, by late 1941 all components were manufactured in Australia. The manufacture of components for the Beaufort was de-centralised to factories in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia and the control of gauges and tools used during manufacture was strictly controlled. The women are maintaining records on a status board which records the movement of tools and gauges between the Beaufort Division's factories. The women are wearing overalls showing the initials APC, the Air Production Commission. (AWM Military Technology Collection)
Fairfield, Vic. c. 1942. Men and women at work checking stock in the general store of the Department of Aircraft Production's Beaufort Division Fairfield complex. The parts and components in this stor
Fairfield, Vic. c. 1942. Aircraft parts being examined in the inspection view room of the Department of Aircraft Production's Beaufort Division Fairfield complex. Both men and women undertook this wor
A woman using an electrical riveting gun in the assembly of a Beaufort tail plane. She is one of a number of men and women working on the same component at the Department of Aircraft Production's Beau
Flanked by two Beaufort bombers, the Director of the Government Aircraft Factory (GAF), Beaufort Division, Mr John Storey (civilian standing on podium) is presenting the Log Book of the 500th Beaufort
MARIBYRNONG ?, VIC. THE 25 POUNDER GUN, STANDARD WEAPON FOR FIELD ARTILLERY THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE, IS IN PRODUCTION IN AUSTRALIA. MANUFACTURE OF THE GUN NECESSITATED THE MAKING IN AUSTRALIA OF MANY SP
C. 1944. BRISTOL BEAUFORT BOMBERS DRAWN UP IN A LINE, PROBABLY OUTSIDE A GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT FACTORY. SEVEN HUNDRED OF THESE WERE MANUFACTURED BY AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT FACTORIES 1939-1944. (D
