PLANE FACTORY AT RONGGTAI
Production To Begin This Month TIGER MOTH TRAINING MACHINES (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 6. The new de Havillaiid aeroplane fnc tory at Rongotai will he producing planes by the end of tills month, when the first batch of Tiger Moth training machines ordered by the New Zealand Government 'will be put. into service. 11. is proposed for the time being to produce machines at the rate of six a mouth, said Mr. P. J. de Havillaiid, of Aircraft Corporation, London, who arrived at Auckland today. He added that since the decision was made 12 months ago to establish a factory in New Zealand progress had been excellent. In its early stages the factory would be principally an assembly plant, planes being received from England and assembled at Wellington, with the exception of woodwork and certain small parts manufactured iu New Zealand.
As the plant became available and the staff was trained, more of the parts would be fabricated in tho Dominion, aud ultimately the entire machines would be New Zealand-built.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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175PLANE FACTORY AT RONGGTAI Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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