AEROPLANES FOR ARMY.
CONTRACTS FOR BATTLESHIPS
Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, December 24. Tlie War Office has purchased a Deper-Dussian monoplane of the French army type. •Messrs Boardmore and Co., of Dalmuir, and Vickers, Son and Maxim, of .Barrow, have each contracted to build a battleship more powerful than the King George. The firms have arrived at a working agreement enabling them to arrange plans, patterns, and castings on an economical basis. It is understood that despite poritinued agitation no battleship is likely to be built at the Thames Ironworks.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXII, Issue 8258, 26 December 1911, Page 5
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