PLANES FROM AMERICA
THE QUESTION OF OUTPUT.
MEETING BRITAIN’S NEEDS (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 26. (Mr Knudsen, who is defence production co-ordinator, stated that Britain will need to build 08 lactorios in the United States to obtain production of 3000 planes a. month, while such production could not ho reached before the middle, of 1012. He stated that lie is preparing lor the British an estimate of factory equipment and ibo costs necessary. The present prod action of planes in the United States is approximately 000 a month. Britain will 1 obtain 326 planes from the. August production. Mr Knudsen said it takes from six to 11 months to erect and equip an aircraft factory.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 248, 27 July 1940, Page 6
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