UNITED NATIONS’ PLANE PRODUCTION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 24 October 1942, Page 2

UNITED NATIONS’ PLANE PRODUCTION

AXIS TOTAL SURPASSED (Rec. 1.10 p.m.) Rugby, Oct. 23. British production of warlike stores is five and a half times that of the first quarter in 1940 when the programme had been going for over a year, and the production of aircraft is now about four times what it was then. Mr Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production, giving these figures in an address to the Institute of Production Engineers, when he surveyed problems now confronting the industry, added that it was a matter of great importance that the United Nations had now caught up and indeed surpassed the total Axis output of aircraft. “We have to send these great quantities of munitions to all parts of the civilised and uncivilised world and before the war is ended we shall have to send them to the most uncivilised part of the world —Germany, and therefore it takes some i time before this growing weight of munitions makes itself felt in the only terms by which it can be understood by everyone, namely, victory.” The Minister said the stage had been reached where production must be increased by making greater use of machines and the labour force at our disposal.—B.O.W.