Late News PLANE PRODUCTION IN AUSTRALIA
(Rec. 2 am.) SYDNEY, August 21. Australia is now producing more planes each month than were turned out by most of the large aircraft organizations in Britain and America before the war, the Minister of Aircraft Production, Senator Donald Cameron, has announced.
The Commonwealth had embarked on quantity production of Beaufort torpedo bombers, which challenged comparison with similar aircraft produced in the world’s greatest centres of population and industry, Senator Cameron said. The cost of producing these planes in Australia was lower than if they had been imported. Increasing numbers were being put into service with the Air Force. Despite man-power problems and the acute shortage of machinetools and basic materials the work of manufacturing the Beauforts was being carried on by more than 300 engineering establishments, widely dispersed for safety purposes throughout certain states of the Commonwealth.
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Southland Times, Issue 24829, 22 August 1942, Page 5
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144Late News PLANE PRODUCTION IN AUSTRALIA Southland Times, Issue 24829, 22 August 1942, Page 5
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