The Short Company have just held their annual meeting, when Mr. K. O. Short, the chairman, said that 26 of the 28 great flying-boats order-by Imperial Airways have al~ ready been delivered and the two remaining craft should be handed ever soon, "thus strictly fulfilling cur promise of delivery.
The company has lately gone into partnership with the well known shipbuilders of Belfast, Messrs. Harland & Wolff, in building an aircraft factory, known as Short and Harland, at Belfast It is already employing 1200 men and can easily be expanded to still greater size.
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