ARMING OF BRITAIN

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 105, 4 November 1938, Page 4

ARMING OF BRITAIN

WASTED YEARS \ , NUFFTELD’S REGRETS LONDON, Oct, 28.—At a meeting on. Friday night of the Institute or Production Engineers, Lord Nuffield said! that if he had received encouragement three years ago there would have been an entirely different position a few weeks ago. “When 1 look back over those three years,” he added, “and think what L .might have done it is literally appalling; hut in any case, no country in this world can put us under.” The Secretary for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, who spoke before Lord Nuffield, announced a broadening of the basis of production by the use of organisations outside the industry which possess technicians, engineers, and organisers. He pointed out the fallacy of comparing plane production before the end of the war, when, he said, 2(300 manhours were occupied to make an aeroplane, with present production, because the latest types occupied from 20,000 to> 80,000 man-hours.