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I LEAN TIMES IN FRANCE M. BLERIOT'S ILL-FORTUNE (Received August 22, 5.45 p.m.) PARIS. Aug. 21 M. Louis Bleriot, who was the first man to fly across tho Channel in 1909, and for years the leading aeroplane designer and manufacturer in France, has decided that ho must close his factory. He says: "Unless the Ministry of Air gives me orders I can do nothing. "A few years ago I employed 3000 men. Now I employ only 10. During my lifetime I have designed 200 different models and built more than 10,000. "During tho war the output of my factory reached 13 aeroplanes a day. Ln 1926 I submitted plans for seaplanes exactly similar to those of General Balboa's Italian armada, but they were rejected. To-day I have plans for transatlantic passenger machines which I am sure will be generally approved five years hence."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21577, 23 August 1933, Page 9
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