NEW AIRCRAFT FACTORY
OPENED AT READING fast trainer planes (British OHieial VVirelesß] RUGBY, 28th January, fcir Kingsley Wood, Secretary for Air, opened the new aircraft factory at Reading, the eroclion of which began less than six mouths ago. and which will initially be engaged in fulfilling one of the biggest orders ever given for trainer aircraft, namely, the Government’s order for Miles Master two-seater monoplanes, the world’s fastest trainer aircraft, with a maximum speed of 270 miles an hour.
The Secretary for Air took the opportunity to announce changes affecting the Civil Air Guard, in which there are 1400 license-holders. Each and all of those qualifying wiil be grouped in three classes, according to the typo of service they might render in war. Flying and training subsidies will ul&o be increased, but, in view of the original 36,000 applications, a ban on new applications is announced.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 January 1939, Page 4
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