shadow factory
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English
Noun
shadow factory (plural shadow factories)
- (UK, historical) An aircraft factory in the World War II era, partly staffed by people from the motor industry, that was kept hidden from enemy aircraft.
- 1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 313:
- but common prudence demanded, even before the outbreak of war, that details should not be disclosed which might reveal to a potential enemy the positions of "shadow factories" and air bases, and the location of stores of munitions, petrol, food, and so forth.