AMERICA SEEKS MARKETS
AIRLINERS FOR BRITAIN
OPERATING FUTURE AIRWAYS
The United States Mission for j Economic Affairs in London is re-1 ported to have circulated Britisti j airlines offering to sell Douglas. Da- . kota and Lockheed Lodestar trans- i port aircraft for operating existing : and future airways. The maximum price of the Dakota is £25 S 'UOO, less a reduction for conversion costs. The Loclvheed is £17,000. With their applications, British airline operations are asked to give details of their plans ? including a full .statement of the use for -which! the planes are intended —for examplc additional routes and territories to be served. The Daily Express says in an editorial: "How tragic ail this is. Here. British airline operations are tempted into buying outside their own land because by Government decree., all that manufacturers in Britain can do is to build prototypes of civil planes. Yet it was Britain that invented the Hurricane, Spitfire, Typhoon Lancaster and Mosquito. It was Britain that pioneered radiolocation and developed the jet plane. British aircraft engines are still the best in the Avorld."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 50, 20 February 1945, Page 3
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179AMERICA SEEKS MARKETS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 50, 20 February 1945, Page 3
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