U.S. AIRCRAFT BOUGHT
HUGE ALLIED ORDERS FOR LATEST TYPES CONTRACTS FOR ABOUT 5000 MACHINES (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COEIHIGHT.) (Received April 19, 12.5 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 18. The Allied purchasing mission announced that it had already purchased “huge . quantities” of the latest types of United States military aircraft. Contracts were signed in New York yesterday for unspecified numbers of Curtiss pursuit aeroplanes and Douglas bombers. A third contract is being concluded for one of the latest types which was released on April 15. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” learns that American manufacturers have insisted on continuing to produce aircraft on a quality basis with many parts hand-worked. They refused to introduce the mass production system by which Germany is reported to have produced 2300 machines a month. Consequently the Allied orders for about 5000 machines, at present being placed, will not be completed until September, 1941. Most officials are satisfied that the American system is the best, but they fear that, should the German theory that preponderance of numbers counts be proved correct, it would take several years to introduce the conveyer-line system in the United States.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23000, 20 April 1940, Page 11
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