Plastic sheeting stretches from floor to ceiling: behind it three new hi-tech, automated production lines are being built.

That has over time diverted them from vital longterm investment in training and automated production.

Building a complex motor with minute tolerances requires the precision of a fully automated production line.

The following year they computerized the firm's design and management operations and completely automated production.

As the design was finalized, automated production was undertaken, and by mid-1943, 900 a month were available.