Britain Hastens Plane Building
(Received 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 16. The Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, announced that the Air Ministry has placed an immediate initial order at Viscount Nuffield’s new factory for 1000 high-speed Spitfire fighters. The “Daily Herald" estimates that the order will cost the Government £10,000.000. The factory will employ 12.000 to 15,000 workers. A message from Berlin states that a Government spokesman remarked: “The only interpretation that can be given Lord Nuffield's aeroplane order is that Britain desires to give the signal for an international armaments race. It is an invitation to the world to engage in an arms competition. The “Daily Mail" says that the 200 Lockheed reconnaissance ’planes the Air Ministry ordered from a California company will be fitted with 1100-horse-power Wright-Cyclonc engines, the same typo as Howard Hughes used on his round-the-world flight.
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Northern Advocate, 18 July 1938, Page 12
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