THE AIR FORCE
FURTHER EXPANSION PLANS IN BRITAIN DOUBLING PRODUCTION IN TWO YEARS. IMMEDIATE MEASURES OF ACCELERATION. (British Official Wireless). RUGBY, April 30. The further expansion of the Royal Air Force, which was recently predicted by the Prime Minister, Mr Neville Chamberlain, in the House of Commons has now been authorised and measures of acceleration and development in the aircraft industry to supply additional equipment are immediately to be put in hand.
It is understood that plans prepared by the Air Ministry after consultation with the Society of British Aircraft Manufacturers, and now approved by the Government, will aim at doubling the production of aircraft within two years.
The Air Ministry has announced the personnel of a supplies committee of seven, which is charged with the supervision of production under the chairmanship of Lord Winterton.
It is stated that the increase in the current financial year will be so marked that a revised estimate of officers and men required for the Royal Air Force will be biggest of any post-war year. Extra squadrons will be formed and in some squadrons the first line strength of aircraft will be raised.
Members of Lord Winterton’s committee will include Air Vice-Marshal W. L. Welsh, ah' member for supply and organisation; Air Marshal Sir Wilfred Freeman, air member for research and development; Air ViceMarshal Peirse, deputy-chief 'of air staff; Mr A. H. Self, second deputy Un-der-Secretary of State in the Air Ministry; Sir Charles Bruce Gardner, chairman of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors; and Mr E. E. Bridges, of the Treasury. A statement on the new planes will be made in the House of Commons within the next fortnight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1938, Page 7
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