Canada to Construct Bombers for Britain
WORKERS TO BE TRAINED OTTAWA, Jan. 20. Fifty skilled Canadian aircraft workers will cross tho Atlantic within the next few weeks for technical training in the construction of Royal Air Force bombers. Supervising their course will be Mr. Lewis Ord, Toronto-born engineer, who holds the post of production director of Britain’s air armament programme. Under the first contracts signed last autumn, the Canadian aircraft industry is to build 100 heavy bombers of the Handley Page Hampden type. Produced in seperato factories, the ships will be assembled in central assembly plants at Toronto and Montreal.
Early in the new year Mr. Ord will give up his Air Ministry post to take over the general managership of Canadian Associated Aircraft, Limited. This is the company forced by Canadian manufacturers to deal with tho British Government.
Declaring: “The potentialities of Canadian labour are unbounded,” Mr. Ord expressed confidence #hat Canada will prove an efficient source of aeroplanes for Britain.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 6
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