AIRCRAFT QUOTA
PROPOSALS IN BRITAIN
MANUFACTURERS CONCERNED
LONDON, 4th November.
The "Daily Mail" publishes further details of the British proposals for control of air forces, which include the abolition of air fighting forces and air warfare, and the scheduling of building programmes: ■ '
_ The scheme, it says', envisages the limitation of the number of, privatelyowned aeroplanes by a quota operative in each country. The proposals are those of the Foreign Minister "(Sir John Simon), and have been lengthily discussed by the special Cabinet Subcommittee. Some Ministers' oppose portion of the plan, which is, believed to be unacceptable to the Air Ministry advisers.
_ Eumours of the Government's intentions havo. alarmed aircraft manufacturers, who contend that placing commercial aviation under international control will cause construction to be distributed on a political, instead of a competitive, basis, and severely check one of Great Britain's leading industries. ■ ' . .
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 121, 18 November 1932, Page 7
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142AIRCRAFT QUOTA Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 121, 18 November 1932, Page 7
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