TORPEDO-BOMBERS
QUANTITY PRODUCTION IN AUSTRALIA WORK WIDELY DISPERSED. IN MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED ESTABLISHMENTS. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, August 21. Australia is now producing more planes each month than were turned .out by most of the large aircraft organisations in Britain and America before the war, the Minister of Aircraft Production, Senator- Cameron, has announced. The Commonwealth, he said, was embarked on quantity production of Beaufort torpedo-bomb-ers, which challenged comparison with similar aircraft produced in the world’s greatest centres of population and industry. The cost of producing these planes in Australia was lower than if they were imported. Increasing numbers were being nut into service with the air force in spite of the manpower problems and the acute shortage of machine tools and basic materials. The work of manufacturing the Beauforts was being carried on by more than 300 establishments widely dispersed for safety purposes throughout certain States of the Commonwealth.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1942, Page 3
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