New York, June 11.
Manufacturers of high power alr-craft engines smashed all records in the mofith of May in the output of power plants, Unofficial estimates indicate that the three major producers in the high power field, Wright, Pratt and Whitney, and Allison, combined pro-Suced in the neighbourhood of 3,500 engines. This means that since January the monthly production rate has been boosted 1,100 units, while the industry had combined facilities for only 200 to 300 engines a month in September 1939, at the outbreak of war.
The Wright Aeronautical Corporation still leads the procession, with their Paterson, New Jersey, plant turning out 1,700,000 horsepowers in May, as compared with 1,100,000 horsepowers in January.
The Pratt and Whitney division of the United Aircraft Corporation is actually running 1,400 engines ahead of schedule. It is approaching the 1,300,000 horsepower mark and is scheduled to reach peak production of 2,000,000 horsepowers a month late this year.
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