Pioneer Airman Gets Little Support
Manufacturing Activities lay Have to Cease LOUIS BLERIOT APPEALS FOR ORDERS United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. lieceivcd Tuesday, 7 p.m. PARIS, Aug. 21. Louis Blcriot, the first inaa to fly the English Channel, in 1909, and for years a leading aeroplane designer and manufacturer in Prance, has decided that he must close his factory. He says: “Unless the Ministry of War gives mo orders I can do nothing. A few years ago I employed 3000 men, but now only ten. During my lifetime I have designed 200 different models and built over 1000. During the war my factory’s output reached 13 aeroplanes per day. “In 192(5 I submitted plans of seaplanes exactly similar to those used by General Balbo’s Armada, but they were rejected. To-day I have plans, for trans-Atlantic passenger machines, which I am sure will be generally approved five years hence.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7242, 23 August 1933, Page 7
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