The production table covers 1936-1944 and gives a total value of roughly £5.5 million in contemporary money. The figures read out include 139 six-inch Mark 23 guns and 44 fourteen-inch Mark VII guns. A fourteen-inch barrel alone is priced at £22,000, which does not represent the cost of its complete mounting. The table also lists 523 of the 4.7-inch guns associated here with the Second World War Tribal class, at £2,200 each.
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Elswick gun production and the cost of individual barrels
Elswick's production tables put quantities and prices beside British naval guns, distinguishing the cost of a barrel from the larger mounting.