OUTBUILDING NAZIS
British Plane Production LONDON, October IS. The chairman of the British Supply Council, Mr. John Llewellyn, told an aqdignee in Detroit, today that Britain alone was producing more aircraft than; Germany, and was turning out more, weight of aircraft a head of population 1 than any country in the world. He said that all the oil used for war had not been coming from American sources. British oilfields ot Trinidau uiid been worked to very much more than their rated capacity. i As to the Persian oil resources.. the, position was this: Before the Mediterranean was open, in a given period one tanker could carry 10,000 tons from! 'Persia and 25,000 tons from the Caribbean. As there were only just enougnj tankers to go round the nearest source; of supply was naturally used. Tins] would have been done whether the supply was British or American.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 5
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147OUTBUILDING NAZIS Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 5
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