Evansville Ordnance Ammo

[snowrs]

In doing some research on 1911 and .45 in general I ran across the fact that the Chrysler plant here in Eville durring the war actually made ammo for the cause and was the largest supplier of .45 during the war. Has anyone ever seen any of this. It would be so cool to have a box.

 

[snapping turtle]

A year ago i saw someone on here selling a case in boxes.

I almost got a box for my rem rand.

 

[Fullmag]

Cool. Where did you find this info? There was many factories here in Muncie that did war stuff but don't know what.

 

[Twentyfootdaredevil]

My grandfather worked in that plant. He drove all the way from Tell City everyday to work. Back then that was a haul.

 

[snowrs]

Cool. Where did you find this info? There was many factories here in Muncie that did war stuff but don't know what.

It was on an NRA webpage, about all of the Ordnance manufacturers in the US during that time. International Harvester made some M1 Garands here as well.

 

[Twentyfootdaredevil]

I think my dad has old pictures of the plant from when my grandfather was there. I will ask tommorrow about them and try to scan them on here.

 

[snowrs]

I think my dad has old pictures of the plant from when my grandfather was there. I will ask tommorrow about them and try to scan them on here.

 

[EPD1102]

I've got a couple boxes of it. If I remember right, the headstamp says EC 45. I bought it at a gun shop here in Evansville a few years ago. Mine came in a square tin that I gave to a buddy who collects old ammo and such.

 

[msd]

That'd be kind of cool to come across something like that. Sadly it took a war though for business to boom in this area

 

[longhuntr]

I think I saw some of this at Traildust surplus in Bloomington a while back. Thay have a display of a bunch of old ammo. I think I heard somewhere that they also manufactured the little Liberator pistols there in Evansville. I know that it was at a guide lamp factory somewhere.

 

[windellmc]

They also built P-47s at what was until recently the Whirlpool plant.

 

[snorko]

The Chrysler plant, now the Hahn building just south of Diamond Ave, produced 95% of the .45 acp ammo in WWII. The plant also produced small amounts of .30 carbine. They designed a special paper encapsulated shot shell round for survival kits. The same plant also rebuilt tanks later on. There is a small book about the plant available at Central Library. Remnants of the ammo bunkers can be seen at the 4H grounds.

And yes, Evansville also produced P-47 planes and LST's. Later the Int'l Harvestor plant made M1 Garands.

 

[CarmelHP]

I think I saw some of this at Traildust surplus in Bloomington a while back. Thay have a display of a bunch of old ammo. I think I heard somewhere that they also manufactured the little Liberator pistols there in Evansville. I know that it was at a guide lamp factory somewhere.

Guide Lamp in Anderson.