The Archive · 1938

Air Ministry Places Contracts

Big Order Awarded to Firm in England — SPRCIAL TO THE "N.C.D.N."

London, June 11.

A contract, it is understood, has been placed with a firm in England by the Air Ministry including an order for high-speed training aircraft.

The Air Ministry states that orders aggregating several times that placed with American aircraft manufacturing firms have been placed during the last few weeks for high-speed monoplanes, The Air Council have decided to establish a new factory at Crewe for the production of complete Rolls Royce aero engines to meet the requirements of the expansion of the R.A.F., and to increase the capacity for rapid production in case of emer-

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