![]() ![]() Additionally, the Lima facility built “Duplex Drive” tanks-M4 Shermans converted to amphibious use for the D-Day invasion. Radios were installed, pioneer tools were added, and sensitive areas were waterproofed. These vehicles were tested, cleaned, finished, modified, updated, loaded with equipment, and packed for shipment. During the war, over one hundred thousand vehicles passed through the Lima depot, one of only three in the country. The factory was repurposed as a tank depot in September 1942 and turned over to United Motors Service, a GMC subsidiary, two months later (as a government-owned, contractor-operated, or GOCO, plant). Construction work began in May 1942 however, advances in manufacturing technology soon mooted the project. Early in World War II, the US Army contracted with the Ohio Steel Foundry Company to build a factory to produce steel gun tubes. ![]()
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