PRODUCTION OF PLANES
MANUFACTURING METHODS IN U.S.A. INSISTENCE ON QUALITY BASIS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK. April 19. The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" learns that American manufacturers insisted on continuing to produce aircraft on a quality basis with many parts handworked. They refused to introduce the mass production system whereby Germany is reported to have produced 2300 planes monthly. Consequently. Allied orders, some 5000, are at present being placed, will not be completed till September. 1941. The majority of officials are satisfied that the American system is the best, but fear that should the German theory ■that the preponderance of numbers counts be proved correct, it would take several years to introduce the conveyer line system in the United States.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1940, Page 5
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123PRODUCTION OF PLANES Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1940, Page 5
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