AIRCRAFT EXPORTS UP

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 146, 5 June 1936, Page 7

AIRCRAFT EXPORTS UP

Britain Reaches Record

(British Official Wireless.; RUGBY, June 4

The total value of British aircraft exports for 1935 was £2,721,441, which is the highest ou record and exceeded the figure for 1934 by £860,339. The total also exceeded the previous record, set up in 1929, by £562,774.

Despite the demands this year upon the aircralt industry of the Gove nnient’s programme of expansion for the Royal Air Force, manufactui «rs are contributing to fulfil mauy faige orders for exports. Three leading c< mpanies announce orders aggregating hundreds of thousands of pounus ,n value and coming from nearly a dozen different countries The Avro company is supplying aircraft to Greece, Austria, Australia, Finland and Egypt, the most considerable individual contract being 38 Anson twin-engined monoplanes tor Australia.

The De Havilland company, which last year sold aircraft to 25 countries, has receive! orders recently from Uruguay, New Zealand, Turkey and Iraq. The Hawker company also Las large export orders.

Much interest was shown at the lecent International Aero Exhibition at Stockholm in the General Aircralt Co.’s monospan twin-engined ambo ante monoplane The fittings include spcci ally designed stretchers, containers fur medical instruments and stores, oxygen cylinders and tents and blood-trans-fusion apparatus.