THE AIR COUNCIL

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 96, 23 April 1940, Page 10

THE AIR COUNCIL

NEW CIVIL MEMBER

SIR CHARLES CRAVEN

/ SUPPLY BOARD SET UP

(British Official Wireless.) ,«. '(Received April 23, 2.40 p.m.) x

HUGBY, April 22.

EThe Air Ministry announces:

. "Concurrently with the arrangeJ.ments N announced today for relieving ■the pressure on the chiefs ofv staff, ..the Air, Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, '- has invited Sir Charles Craven to join the Air Council as civil member for development and production.

"In his new appointment, which will

•.be a whole-time one, Sir Charles Craven will be associated with Air-

• Marshal Sir Wilfred Freeman, air memtor for development and production. '.. Sir Charles will also be chairman of

; the Air Supply Board, which will ret- place the existing Air Council Committee on Supply. "Sir Charles Craven, on taking •up - his appointment, has dissociated him- , self from the boards of Vickers Limited, Vickers ' Armstrong Limited, and

■''; all associated companies, and ceases to take,any part in the conduct of their - affairs."

~ '.Mr. E. J. H. Lemon, whose services "were "lent to the Air Ministry by the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway, "' is resuming his office with the railway, his work at the Air Ministry being 'completed. He will serve, however, .- on the Air Supply Board, which will be responsible under the Air Council ■' for the production of aeronautical equipment and supplies and will be composed of Sir Charles Craven - (chairman), Lord Riverdale, Air-Mar-shal Sir Wilfred Freeman, Air-Marshal Sir Christopher Courtney, Sir, Harold ' Hpwitt, Mr. Lemon, Sir Charles Bruce Gardney, and Mr. Lindsay Scott.