MORE RESIGNATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 25769, 16 April 1946, Page 5

MORE RESIGNATIONS

POWER JETS LIMITED GOVERNMENT'S POLICY EXPLAINED (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) ■ LONDON, April 15. Four engineers and four draftsmen of Power Jets Limited have resigned in addition to 16 of the original team. Mr D. N.. Walker, one of the 16, told the Press Association that the new resignations followed the official announcement that tliis was an appropriate time for men who did not wish to become Civil servants to leave the firm. In reply to a question in the House of Commons to-day Mr J. Wilmot (Minister of Aircraft Production), said the Government, when taking over the firm of Power Jets, decided it could best contribute to the advance in the field of jet propulsion by concentrating on research and leaving the manufacture of turbines to the professional industry. The Government had carried the matter to its logical conclusion by turning Power Jets into a Government undertaking called the National Gasturbine Establishment. Its work would new be confined to fundamental research and development, leaving manufacture to the professional industry, whose large resources were capable of rapid expansion in time of need and formed an invaluable war potential. The establishment would deal with every aspect of jet propulsion, gas turbines, and any, other development in this method of locomotion.