LOUIS BLERIOT
MAY HAVE TO CLOSE FACTORY
ORDERS URGENTLY NEEDED
(United Pres* Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
PARIS, August 22. M. Louis '‘Bleriot, the first man to fly the English Channel, in 1909, and for years, a leading aeroplane designer and. manufacturer in France, has decided that lie must close ; his factory. ■■ '. .', '.
He says: “Unless, s the Ministry of Air gives me orders, I can do nothing. A few years iago I employed three thousand men. Now I employ only 'ten.
\ 3>uring my lifetime,. I have designed \ two hundred different models nnd 1 built over a thousand planes during the war.
‘ ‘My factory’s output reached thirteen (aeroplanes per day in 1926. 1 submitted plans of seaplanes , exactly similar to those used by Marshal Balbos’ Italian Armada, but they were rejected.-To-day .1 have plans for Trans-Atlantic, passenger machines, which I: am. sure will be generally approved, five years hence.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1933, Page 5
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