BREACH OF FAITH?

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 100, 30 March 1937, Page 11

BREACH OF FAITH?

AUSTIIALIAN ’PLANE-BUILDINC “Australia’s decision to build American machines is a gross breach of faith with the British Air Ministry,” says the Aeroplane in an article. The magazine asserts that an agreement had been made with the Air Ministry that the equipment of the R.A.A.E. and the R.A.F. would bdr identical so that co-operation in wartime would be ea, ‘Sir Archdale Parkhill’s statement that Australia’s decision had been made in view of special considerations which had been the subject of consultations with the British Government, is entirely, if not deliberately, misleading,” the magazine goes on. .... “It suggests that the decision was made in agreement with or even on the advice of the British Government. The truth is that the 'consultation’ ended in complete disagreement. We believe that little manufacturing, in the sense of handicraft, is to be done at Fishermen’s Bend. The Australian idea seems to be that the Australian factorv there should be merely an assemblv and that N.IGs for the R.A.A.F. shall be nbout ns much built at the Bend as Imperial Airways flying boats are built at Bermuda.