AMERICAN PLANES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1940, Page 7

AMERICAN PLANES

PRODUCTION FOR GREAT BRITAIN Plans for Substantial Increase in Output ANNOUNCEMENT BY LORD BEAVERBROOK DEVELOPMENT PROMISED WITHOUT DELAY Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, a Daventry broadcast reports, states that he has just received a telephone message from the Air Mission in the United States and Canada to the effect that the United States will approve a plan for the immediate production of aeroplanes for Britain at the rate of 3,000 per month. This plan will be developed without delay and is in addition to the present American programme. SPEEDING-UP DELIVERIES Conference in Washington NEW YORK, July 23. The “New York Times” says it is understood that at a conference in Washington between national defence experts and agents of the British Purchasing Mission it was decided again to examine aircraft production and attempt to speed up deliveries to Britain. The conference, which was attended by the Secretary to the Treasury, Mr Morgenthaii, the War Secretary, Mr Stimson, the Naval Secretary, Colonel Knox, and the president of General Motors, Mr Knudsen, unanimously expressed the opinion that all aid should be given to Britain, thereby reflecting the Administration’s policy. It was denied that the Air Corps and the War Department had attempted to interfere with British deliveries. The conference drafted plans to synchronise the purchasing of planes by Britain and America in a manner which will not interfere with United States military orders. No details have been announced.