GREAT CHAIN OF FACTORIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14844, 22 February 1919, Page 3

GREAT CHAIN OF FACTORIES.

•— rMAOHINES THAT WILL COST £100,000. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 19.-JE have received private information from an au- ' thontative source (writes Shaw Desmond) that Germany is making enor- ' mous secret preparations to secflre the mastery of the air after the war. German insurance companies are seek, mg cover m neutral countries, especially Denmark, for insurances relating io a great cham of aeroplane factories and to aerial experiments. These insurances include both damage to factories and damage to machines. Factories throughout Germany are now being converted from war activities to, the building, of aeroplanes and air engines. Staffs are being trained. r Lrigantic hangars and flying stations are to be kid down, in/alf the prin! , .cipal towns. The first step will be to link up the chief German centres with / wfS U Vi, and t t ? 1 J en Berlin ™ U *w with the outside world, including Paris London, and even New York. ;•■ Although lighter , than air machines are not regarded n 5 of serious practical value, a Zeppelin will be. used to mako a trans-Atlantic flight m the spring, and thus advertise Germany's aerial •predominance. Later aeroplanes will be used for a real service. Machines will vary from the business man a 200 horse-power aeroplane to giants with thousands of horse-power. A hav-e just seen original documents i I J^is? t they toU cost from £2000 to £100,000 each. Eacl^fadtory or group of factories is to specialise m a special type of aeroplane. Th e> staffs are conducting Sorate experiments on the ground^ and m the air m order to secure immunity from, accents. These experiments wei being made € y en before the armistice,, and it is significant that no insurance^ S n tel. P€raonal - injuries ■"* w* clusion 3 of Germany's most astute busf*^l ?i €n> Jl ¥ , as von thought tha^ Germaiiy's future Jay on the dlep a * e^. st > they conclude that it lies IS *£°s"\. P|y believe that Britain and : i^ l vr tG r States '. with the}r enormous demobihsation problems, will not be ready to transform war 'aeroplanes to business aeroplanes for some time to. ft,? e ff. it f *J le volution 'everything is fl. full blast, for German business "men believe that the establishment of a sLbL Government is only a que.tfcn.of iime? L,H V6 n Men P^°P° 3al « from « W bouth, German msurance company embvacmg machines to cost up to £60 000' each, and covering special concentration! & a 6 G< ?^ a - The tota l amount pounds rU " S m t6nS ° f mmion * °f