AIRBORNE ARMIES
REVOLUTION IN TRANSPORT. (Rec. 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, July 23. The importance to the Empire of an airborne army was stressed by the chairman of the Rolls-Royce Company, Mr. Eric Smith, in a speech. The Dominions, he said, had the right to expect prompt assistance from Britain immediately they were threatened. The tempo of modern war did not permit the use of marine transport over the Empire’s huge distances, yet the fringe has only just been touched of what could be done by air transport. With the development of specialised transports of load-carrying capacity many times greater than anything now existing, and the provision of military equipment designed to reduce weight" to a minimum, it was feasible that in future the transport of whole armies by air would be completed in one-tenth of the time required to transport them by sea. „ Mr. Smith said the present Air Force equipment was probably obsolescent, the world was on the verge of such great technical advances that reequipment almost immediately was inevitable, especially for fighters.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 July 1945, Page 5
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