BEAUFORT BOMBERS
MANUFACTURE IN AUSTRALIA
(N.Z.P.A. Special Aust. Correspondent); SYDNEY, August 2Australia is now producing mura planes each month than were turned out by most of the large aircraft or. ganisations in Britain and America uefore the war, said the Minister for Aircraft Production, Hr D. Cameron. las Commonwealth had embarked on quantity production of Beaufort torpi da bombers, which challenged comparie ,tj. with similar aircraft produced in taa world’s greatest centres of population and industry. Mr Cameron said the cost, of producing these planes in Australia was Ipwoc than if they were imported. .Increase ing numbers were being put into ser. vice with the Air Force, in spite of man-power problems and an ac ito shortage of machine tools and b; s o materials The work of manufacttr g Hi anforts was being carried on by v a than 300 engineering establish'' , s widely dispersed for safety, pnij s throughout certain States of the,Com. momvealth.
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Evening Star, Issue 24280, 22 August 1942, Page 4
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156BEAUFORT BOMBERS Evening Star, Issue 24280, 22 August 1942, Page 4
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