ROLLS-ROYCE ENGINES
COMPANY'S OFFER
BRITAIN ORDERS RAILS
LONDON, July 3
It was announced in Washington today that the Packard Motor Company has agreed to build 9000 Rolls-Royce aeroplane engines, subject to the directors' approval. Six thousand will be for the British Government, and 3000 for the United States Government. Production is planned to reach 840 a month within 15 months.
The United States Navy has announced contracts for three aircraftcarriers and two cruisers. During the last three weeks the United States Navy has given contracts for 92 ships totalling half a million tons and estimated to cost £285,000,000.
The "Iron Age," the trade paper of the steel industry of the United States, announces that big orders have been placed in the United States by Britain for 112,000 tons of steel rails, manufacture to be started in a fortnight. They are to .be kept in reserve by Britain for the' repair of railway tracks. The United States has undertaken to buy 75,000 tons of tin to be kept in reserve as a war measure.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 4, 4 July 1940, Page 11
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