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    Video of rifle experts engaged in "sighting" and straighening the barrels of Lee-Enfield rifles. Video courtesy of the Public Relations Department of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. Limited. Toronto, Canada.

    Video of some interesting operations in one of Canada's largest plants producing vital small arms. Video courtesy of the Public Relations Department of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. Limited. Toronto, Canada.

    Video of operators testing the completed Bofors anti-aircraft gun. Video courtesy of the Public Relations Department of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. Limited. Toronto, Canada.

    Art McCartney was a foreman at Defence Industries Limited. He descusses some of the plant rules that employees must follow.

    Video of the Pickering shell-filling plant employees in 1941. Video courtesy of the Public Relations Department of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. Limited. Toronto, Canada.

    Art McCartney was a foreman at Defence Industries Limited. He discusses wages in the D.I.L. era, as well as promotions and raises at the plant.

    Video of D.I.L. workers completing the turning and finishing of 25 pound shells. Video courtesy of the Public Relations Department of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. Limited. Toronto, Canada.

    Alex Russell was personnel manager at Defence Industries Limited. He describes the circumstances surrounding the birth of D.I.L.

    Thousands of war workers catching home-bound buses. Video courtesy of the Public Relations Department of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. Limited. Toronto, Canada.

    Video of D.I.L. workers completing the turning and finishing of 25 pound shells. Video courtesy of the Public Relations Department of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. Limited. Toronto, Canada.

    Cecil Robinson was hired to do personnel duties at Defence Industries Limited, and interviewed D.I.L. applicants in June, 1941.

    Cecil Robinson performed personnel duties for Defence Industries Limited. He describes how he began working at the plant.

    Stan Landymore began working at Defence Industries Limited as a typewriter and small machine repairman. He describes how he got the job at D.I.L.

    Stan Landymore rose through the ranks at Defence Industries Limited to become machine shop foreman. He describes what it was like to buy groceries during the D.I.L. era.

    Stan Landymore rose through the ranks at D.I.L. to become machine shop foreman.

    Video of the construction of Defence Industries Limited. Video courtesy of the Public Relations Department of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. Limited. Toronto, Canada.

    Video of the construction of Defence Industries Limited. Video courtesy of the Public Relations Department of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. Limited. Toronto, Canada.

    Video of the cafeteria at Defence Industries Limited. Video courtesy of the Public Relations Department of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. Limited. Toronto, Canada.

    Video of carpenters putting up prefabricated homes for the workers of Defence Industries Limited. Homes indluced modern conveniences for that time, and the rent for D.I.L. employees was $25 per month

    Video of a Defence Industries Limited worker's wife packing a lunch box, and saying goodbye to her husband as he leaves for the munitions plant. Video courtesy of the Public Relations Department of W