Canadian Car & Foundry Hawker Hurricane Production in Fort Williams, Ontario 1940

A short clip showing the Canadian Car and Foundry's Fort William's Hawker Hurricane assembly line during the Second World War. It produced some 1400 Hawker Hurricanes (Mks. X, XI, XII) between 1939 and 1943, most of which were sent to Britain. Some of these were manufactured in time to participate in the Battle of Britain.
At one point, the CC&F plant in Fort Williams was the largest aircraft manufacturing facility in the British Commonwealth. After the end of Hurricane production, the plant went on to produce the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver under US government contract. Fort Williams was later renamed Thunder Bay and while much of the plant still exists today (under the control of Alstom), aircraft have been replaced by street cars and are made for customers such as the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).