TORPEDO BOMBERS
(2.10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, July 24. The Minister lor Aircraft Production (Mr Leckie) announced to-day that the first batch of Australian produced Bristol-Beaufort torpedo bombers would be completed in October, Another batch would be ready before tho end of the wear and thereafter production would be maintained on a steadily increasing scale.
Because it is powered with American engines, the Australian-built Beaufort had to be modified considerably.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 199, 24 July 1941, Page 8
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