HUNDREDTH PLANE
AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION
£1,900,000 FIRST YEAR. This month the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation. Australia's big plane manufacturing company, will hand over its one hundredth “Wirraway” machine —just one year after the production of the first. This will mean an output of £1,000,000 worth of planes in the first year of production—a remarkable achievement.
The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation makes both airframes and engines. and employs 2.700 men. It is undertaking the manufacture of prototype Wackett trainers, so designed that they will accustom pupils to all the gear mid tricks of the more powerful monoplanes they will fly later. It also has in the experimental stage a new twin-engined bomber. The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation is one of Australia's industrial wonders. Two years ago the site of its preson! activity w.t; a desolate, sandy trad.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 6
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132HUNDREDTH PLANE Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 6
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