AMERICAN PLANE MOTORS TO BE USED BY FRANCE
PAH!.-. Jan. 8. Tlu- Fre:*-h Government ImJ purchased ier an undisclosed sum the right to manufacture an American airplane engine in an effort to relieve a serious shortage of pnwurrid motors for military pianos. The Air .Ministry has continued the purchase, hilt will not make public the type of on pine, nor the name of the firm 'with which the contract was signed. The engine is believed. + o he a 750-1000 horse-power motor of tne nine-cylinder Wright Cyclone or 14evliiider Pratt and Whitney Jwm Wasp type. This is the first time the kronen Government has sought help from foreign aviation industry.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 11, 16 March 1938, Page 1
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109AMERICAN PLANE MOTORS TO BE USED BY FRANCE Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 11, 16 March 1938, Page 1
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