The Archive · 1938

DECEARATION SPECIAL T THB 1

SIR THOMAS INSKIP'S

London, Jan. 14 "The production of air-engines is increasing well ahead of even what we anticipated," said Sir Thomas Inskip, the Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, speaking at Havant to-day.

British-made engines led the whole world, he continued, and were second io none in design and power.

With one exception the shadow factories were substantially completed, Sir Thomas Inskip declared, The production of aircraft was on an increasing scale and, while delays in volume and delivery' were expe enced, he believed that the difficulties were being overcome.

"With the advent of shadow tories," he concluded, "the result will satisfy the most exacting critic:

—Reuter.

Strube on behalf of the directors, of the glowing sentences of Low, his great associate in cartooning, and of Hannen Swaffer's moving speech.

Swaffer summed it all up in the

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