AIR FORCE PLANES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1938, Page 5

AIR FORCE PLANES

CANADIAN PRODUCTION PLANS DISCLOSURE BY BRITISH MISSION AIR MINISTER’S COMMENTS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 3. Official details of a scheme for the supply by Canadian firms of bombers for the Royal Air Force on a longrange programme of purchases are disclosed in a statement issued at Ottawa by the British Air Mission to Canada. The statement says that firms concerned will increase their production of aircraft components by building two new central factories, one at Montreal and one at Toronto. A central company will be formed, in with those firms, to contract directly with the United Kingdom Government. Arrangements for the manufacture of other types of aircraft, involving the erection of additional plant at other centres such as Vancouver and Fort William are being discussed. These arrangements preclude any possibility of supplies for the Canadian military forces being prejudiced. Sir Kingsley Wood, commenting on the conclusion of the British mission, said: “With the range which aircraft are now attaining, this development will augment our potential strength considerably. The scheme is longrange, but is based on the ready cooperation of the Canadian aircraft industry and of important financial organisations. I have no doubt that, when the scheme has been finally approved, the same co-operation and help that the mission had in evolving it, will assure its unqualified success in practice, and that progress will be expedited to the utmost extent.”