AERONAUTICAL ACHIEVEMENT.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12964, 31 May 1935, Page 3

AERONAUTICAL ACHIEVEMENT.

THOUSAND BRITISH ENGINES.

TWENTY-ONE IN A WEEK. Behind the sale of Gripsy Major engine No. 5999 lies the story of an achievement in the history of British aviation for which the de Ha villa lid Aircraft Company is responsible. Messrs General Aircraft Ltd., the well-known manufacturers of Monospar aircraft, were the purchasers of the thousandth Gipsy Major engine in March.

The production programme of The de Havilland Aircraft Company at Stag Lane, Edgware, is advancing month by month, and the present Gipsy engine programme is at the rate of thirteen 139 h.p. Gipsy Majors and seven 200 h.p. Gipsy Six per week; the production of the latter engine was increased to eight engines per week from the beginning of April. The two hundredth Gipsy six engine was delivered recently to Messrs Jersey Airways as a spare engine for one of their fleet of D.H.86 Express air liners.

The reliability of Gipsy aero engines is being demonstrated hourly; new orders are being received daily. T»i order to maintain the high standard of production and output the engine factory of The de Havilland Aircraft Co. at Stag Lane—the home of the Gipsy engine and where the de Havilland controllablepitch airscrew is being manufactured—has been organised with such meticulous care that maximum output >is being obtained with the highest degree of reliability and safety and with the minimum loss of time and energy. Since the production of the first

Gipsv 1 engine in 1929, the total number of Gipsy engines manufactured to date has reached the neighbourhood of 4. OHO.