BRITAIN’S AIR FORCE
NEW PRODUCTION SCHEMES ADDITIONS TO FACTORIES PLANNED (raon OUB OKS CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, August 28. Three new schemes for aircraft production have been announced in a week by the Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood. A. V. Roe and Company, Ltd.-, at Manchester, have been authorised to build another aircraft factory to cost £1,000,000, and employ 10,000 additional persons At Belfast there is to be a £150.000 extension to Short and Harland’s aircraft factory, which will increase the personnel from 3000 to more than 6000. And at Speke, near Liverpool, there are to be extensions at Roote’s factory which will increase production by 40 per cent, and personnel by 1000 to 6000.
When the extension at Speke is corn* »' pleted early next year, tour Bristol . Blenheim bombers will be turned outevery day. At present the factory as sembles two aeroplanes daily, and nw _ them with engines made p Loven-ry- - High-speed bombing aeroplanes wiu oe - - built at Manchester, and it is UKejy that production will begin p months. Two important types of mhr . . tary aircraft, the Handley H -nd' ford high-performance bomber, an the Briltol Bombay heavy transport monoplane; are in present production, at Belfast. The Bristol Bombay, for which Snor and Harland, Ltd., has received stantial order, is an aU : m ®*fA- two ’ 5 wing monoplane powered with | Bristol radial engines. It ' signed to fulfil most important service roles. Manned by a four it can carry a heayy bomb o For liaison work it can quantities of supplies * aircraft act as a service unit to other a y - ? -f or ground forces. Twenty-four armed infantrymen can travel From wing-tip to wing-tip the bay spans almost 100 feet, from ■JS-. to tail it measures some tO feetfensively armed fore and aft, sessed of an excellent turn of spe*"* the Bombay would not be an prey for fighter aircraft. * It was announced also by Sir ley Wood this week that the 400 machines ordered in the Un •.. States recently will begin m ; yember. ‘ •
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22534, 17 October 1938, Page 2
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