AIR TRANSPORT
Steel Shortage Ifnpedes Output Of Cargo Planes SITUATION IN AMERICA Rec. noon. WASHINGTON, July 29. Mr. Harold Talbot, director of air transportation for the War Production Board, told the Senate Defence Investigating Committee that a shortage of engines of sufficient horsepower prevented the quick changeover to the production of giant air cargo and troop-carrying ships. Any greater shift in that direction would be at the expense of bombers and some fighters that required engines of great horsepower. However, cargo and troop-carrying planes were in production in ths United States. Therefore, this phase was not neglected.
Mr. Talbot averred that the steel shortage was so. acute that every plane engine scheduled for delivery in 1943 had already been allocated to a particular plane. The principal bottleneck was steel.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 178, 30 July 1942, Page 5
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