TWO FACTORIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 209, 5 September 1938, Page 9

TWO FACTORIES.

'PLANES FROM CANADA Scheme to Supply Bombers for Britain. AUGMENT EMPIRE STRENGTH. Britleh Official Wireless. (Received 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, September 4. Official details of the scheme for the supply by Canadian firms of bombers for the Royal Air Force on a long-range programme of purchases are disclosed in a statement issued in Ottawa by the British Air Mission to Canada. The statement says that the firms concerned will increase their production of aircraft components by building two new central factories, one at Montreal and one at Toronto. A central company will be formed in association with these firms to contract directly with the United Kingdom Government. Arrangements for the manufacture of other types of aircraft involving the erection of additional plant at other centres such as Vancouver and Fort William, are being discussed. These arrangements will preclude any possibility of supplies for the Canadian military forces being prejudiced.

The Air Minister* Sir Kingsley Wood, commenting on the conclusion of the British mission, said: "With the range which aircraft are now attaining, this development will augment our potential strength considerably. The scheme is a long-range one, but is based on the ready co-operation of the Canadian aircraft industry and of important financial organisations.

"I have no doubt that when the scheme has been finally approved, the same co-operation and help that the mission had in evolving it will assure its unqualified success in practice, and that progress will be expedited to the utmost extent." The British High Commissioner, Sir Francis Floud. in a statement, says the entire Canadian aircraft industry will participate in the construction of military 'planes for Britain. Only frames will be made at present and the engines will be shipped from Britain. WOMAN VICTORIOUS. First Prize in Los Angeles to Cleveland Race. NINE MALE RIVALS BEATEN. I - NEW YORK, September 4. The well-known aviatrix, Miss Jacqueline Cochran, of New York, crossed the finishing line at Cleveland, Ohio, eight hours 10 minutes 31.4 seconds leaving Los Angeles to wm the 9000dollar g first prize in the 30,000-dollar Bendix Air Derby against nine male rivals. After staying half an hour at Cleveland, Miss Cochran continued to Bendix, New Jersey, thus making her total winnings 12,500 dollars, of which she receives 2500 dollars for being the first woman to finish and 1000 dollars for continuing to Bendix. Miss Cochran's time was just short of Frank Fuller's record last year of seven hours 54 minutes 26.31 seconds. Fuller was second in the present race, losing by about 23 minutes. 24 HOURS , FLIGHT. GERMAN 'PLANE'S LONG TOUR. BERLIN, September 4. A new type of two-engined Siebel aeroplane alighted at Tempelhof aerodrome at 1 a.m. yesterday having completed a 24 hours' flight with brief stops over a circuit embracing London, Paris, Rome Bucharest, Warsaw and Stockholm The distance was 3900 miles and the speed averaged 162 miles an hour. ," MAIL 'PLANE FLIGHT. 10,250 MILES IN 54 HOURS. MOSCOW, September 4. Flying in a mail aeroplane, a Russian named Tyutyae, covered the distance , between Moecov «sd Vladivostok sad