AERO ENGINES
CONTRACT WITH FORD FIRM CALLED OFF.
Ey Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright WASHINGTON, June 25.
President Roosevelt’s Advisory Defence Commission announced that it had cancelled negotiations with the Ford Company for the manufacture of Rolls-Royce aircraft engines because of its refusal to manufacture similar engines for the British Government. Mr Knudsen said it was hoped that production in the United States would be expedited by employing the Ford facilities because the Ford interests in Britain had a contract with the British Government for the manufacture of Rolls-Royce engines.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1940, Page 7
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87AERO ENGINES Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1940, Page 7
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