POTS TO AIRCRAFT.
(British Official Wireless.) (Rec 11.32 a.in.) RUGBY, Dec. 30. More than half the aluminium which thousands of householders have given towards war production has been tinned into the manufacture of aeroplanes. “The rest,” stated Mr R. A. Layton Bennett, chairman of the Aluminium Appeal Committee, “will be ready to take the sk va ttlie end of January Five hundred tons of aluminium pots and pans from Army kitchens sufficient for 500 planes—will almost immediately, it is stated, he handed over by the War Office to the Ministry of Aircraft Production. , The national survey undertaken ay the Ministry of Supply to bring to the war furnaces all the available scrap iron is being extended to Lancashire and Yorkshire. Somerset and Glamorgan have already been surveyed. ' London, and lour North of England counties are in process of survey.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 27, 31 December 1940, Page 6
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