GREAT STRIDES
PRODUCTION OF PLANES IN BRITAIN GERMAN SEPTEMBER OUTPUT EQUALLED. SOME FACTORIES NOT YET OPERATING. (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON. June 12. The output of British planes is now 750 a month, equalling Germany’s output for September. The Secretary of State for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood interviewed by the “Daily Express” said: “It is a different picture today, thanks to the efforts ol many persons both in and out of the Air Ministry. Aircraft production is going on at an ever-increasing pace and there are large sources of production which have not yet come into activity—Lord Nuffield’s factory, for example.” . . According to her schedule. Britain should possess by March, 1940, 2370 first-line planes, necessitating a total personnel many times greater. One of the most important developments is the augmented armament, speed and load capacity of the planes. Sir Kings ley Wood denied that the latest bombers had outmoded the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane fighters,'which would continue to be produced. Britain’s steel output for May rose to a record high level of 121,800 tons.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 June 1939, Page 5
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174GREAT STRIDES Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 June 1939, Page 5
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