PLANE PRODUCTION
British And American
Figures
(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, May 8. Britain and America with the rest of the Empire produced 127,020 planes last year, said Mr A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty in a speech at Sheffield.
“The hourly production last year averaged 14J planes, also nine Army gun equipments, nearly 106,000 rounds of Army gun ammunition, and nearly 3,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition,” Mr Alexander said. Britain’s plane production hourly since the outbreak of the war was two and a-half planes. Dozens of convoys last year reached Russia with millions of tons of cargo, thousands of planes and tanks and tens of thousands of vehicles.
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Southland Times, Issue 25358, 9 May 1944, Page 5
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