Interesting WWII Manufacturing Video

I love this video. Beautiful old style industrial inventiveness.

I think the "pom pom" was a different, British, gun. Often remembered in its multiple-barrel form. Search online...

Yeah, try to get something like that done in today's litigious, corporate-owned, regulation-laden, leftist-slowed theater.

"Well, if you can't guarantee a 7000% ROI within 3 weeks to our stockholders, hire only women/transgenders/minorities, double their pay, and guarantee that the output of their efforts will not be used in a violent manner..."

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

Yeah, same Bofors, built by the Brits in quad format.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

The original Pom Pom was a late 1800's Maxim machine gun scaled up to