STEEL FOR AERODROMES
MILLION ORDER PLACED (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Mar. 28. One of the biggest individual orders for steel work in Britain has been placed by the Air Ministry with the Teeside Bridge and Engineering Company, of Middlesborougli, for nearly £1,000,000 worth of constructional steel, which is mostly to he used for building aerodrome sheds in connection with air defence. number of the latest type of military and general reconnaissance aircraft. The Beaufort engines were being supplied by Britain for the time being, but emergency arrangements for their construction in Australia would be made in due course. These engines would thus be incorporated in the general production scheme. Railway workshops in all of the eastern States of Australia would be engaged in the construction of standardised frames and the final assembly of the aircraft would be carried out at the central workshops at Sydney and Melbourne. ¥he delivery of the first batch of airframes was scheduled for 1940. The maximum bulk production would be reached about the middle of 1941.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19900, 30 March 1939, Page 5
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