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MOUNTING APACE

AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION IN BRITAIN AND IMPORTS FROM U.S.A. & CANADA. LORD BEAVERBROOK'S SURVEY. (By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 23. Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, told the House of Lords that Britain had received from the United States in the last few days 95 aircraft, 355 tons of aircraft parts and 325 engines. During the whole of the air ferry service across the Atlantic Britain had lost only one machine, that in which Sir Frederick Banting, the discoverer of insulin, was killed. Over 1,000 aircraft from the United States and Canada had been handed over to the R.A.F. Britain’s output of aircraft in March was 21 times greater than for the corresponding month last year. Britain had a reserve of heavy bombers of nearly. 100 per cent scattered over the country, but he thought the R.A.F. was entitled to a reserve of 200 or even 300 per cent. Referring to the dispersal of Britain’s aircraft factories, which meant that Germany’s effort to bomb almost came to nothing. Lord Beaverbrook said one factory alone was now scattered over five counties, in 42 different centres.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1941, Page 5

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Tapeke kupu
184

MOUNTING APACE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1941, Page 5

MOUNTING APACE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1941, Page 5

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