from a London reader
Fred. Mulley,the Minister of Defence, has ordered his officials to carry out an urgent examination of the decision to run-down, and eventually close dow, the Royal Ordnance Factory at Yoolwich. The re-examination, which is to be completed very quickly, will look at the Royal Ordnance Factorie’ as a whole. Trade unionists employed in the Ordnance Depots have charged that the decisions to close them were in many ways political. They have also drawn attention to the fact that many of the Depots were practice ally 'sold for a song! after “tins expensively re-cquipped with some of the most modern machine tools in Britain.