AMERICAN AIRCRAFT.
INCREASE IN PRODUCTION.
REPLACING R.A.F. LOSSES.
AVASHINGTON. Sent. 10.
British sources say the American aircraft factories arc turning out planes for Britain at a rate sufficient to replace a quarter of the R.A.F. losses. British production is more than making up the remainder of the losses. The Defence Production Co-ordina-tor (Mr W. S. Knudsen) announced that the defence schedule, including planes for Britain, called for the peak production of 3000 planes a month by July 1942, and by April, 1942, it was expected that a total of '33,000 planes would be completed, of which 14,000 would go to Britain and the remainder were for American service.
Mr A. Purvis, the agent of the British Purchasing Commission, conferred with the Secretary of War (Mr H. L. Stimson). Mr Purvis said the visit did not involve an appeal for planes.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19400912.2.56
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 244, 12 September 1940, Page 7
Word Count
140AMERICAN AIRCRAFT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 244, 12 September 1940, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in