NEW BRITISH ARMY WEAPONS
RESEARCH WORK EXPENDITURE CUT 60% IN TWO YEARS I N.Z.P.A.—Router—Copyright.) (10.0) _ LONDON, Fob. 25. The British Army estimates show that £305,000,000 will he spent on the British Army in 1948-49, compared with £388,000.000 in 1947-48 and £682,000,000 in 1946-47—a reduction of 60 per cent, in the past two years. The White Paper states the actual reduction is even greater because the 1940-47 total did not include payments for stores which are covered in later figures. The new estimates still include war-to-peace transitional costs, but further large reductions in the army strength will occur during 1948. The Secretary of War, Mr. E Shinwell, in a statement on the estimates, says that an analysis of the wartime lc-ssons and future needs were sufficiently advanced to enable some new weapons to be planned. Research study was continuing The objective was to produce equipment which was a definite stride ahead rather than a modification of existing types.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22571, 26 February 1948, Page 5
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