WAR PRODUCTION

Evening Star, Issue 24334, 24 October 1942, Page 6

WAR PRODUCTION

BRITAIN'S RAPID EXPANSION (British Official Wireless.) (ißec. 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 23. British production of warlike stores is five and a-half times that of the first quarter in 1940, when the 'programme had been going for over 1 a year, and production of aircraft is now about four times what it was then. Mr Oliver Lyttelton gave these figures in an address to the Institute of Production Engineers when he surveyed the problems now confronting industry. He added that it was a matter of great importance that the United Nations had now caught up. indeed surpassed the totql Axis output of aircraft. “ We have to send these great quantities of munitions to all parts of the civilised and uncivilised world,” he said, “ and before the war ends we shall have to send them to tho most uncivilised part of the trorld—Gormanv. and therefore it will take some time before this growing weight of munitions makes itself felt in the onlv terms by which it can be understood by everyone, namely victory.” Tho Minister said the stage had been reached where production must be increased by making greater use of the machines and labour force at our disposal.