AVIATION
MYSTERY AIRCRAFT ORDER
BUSY FACTORY IN BRITAIN
LONDON, February 12
A big mystery aircraft order is keeping Short Brothers’ seaplane works at Rochester “busier than at any time since the armistice,” according to an announcement by Mr Oswald Short, the director. Addressing his employees he said that as a result of the order the city of Rochester would experience “a miniature trade boom,” and the works were being entirely occupied, both military and civil departments. The firm recenly launched the biggest flying boat .ever built in England, weighing 33 tons.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1933, Page 8
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91AVIATION Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1933, Page 8
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