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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 22, 1941;
General Motors To Step Up Plane Engine And Bomber Parts Output
General Motors Corp. has announced plans for production of parts and sub- assemblies for 200 bombing planes a month and an increase in its plane motor output to 1,500 a month by autumn this year, states a Detroit message.
This production schedule for bomber parts is double that of Chrysler, which is preparing to turn out 100 fuselages a month for Martin B26 bombers, with the Goodyear Tyra & Rubber Co. making the undercarriages and the Martin company producing the motors and assembling the planes,
Ford, the third automotive! which will compuny
·work
build
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bomber parts, has not announced | Its monthly production schedule for the Consolidated B-24 four- engined bombers it will turn out, Assembly Plant Planned Motors will General North American twin-engined B-25 medium bombers, produced by one of its subsidiaries, The, parts and sub-assemblies will be assembled by. North American Aviation, Inc., at plant which the Intter company will buliding immediately at Kansas City"
America's Help For Britain
Legal Fight Over Chinese Ship Ended
A new chapter in the strunge story of the Chinese freighter Kwang Yuan began recently with sale of the vessel to Australian,.according to a San Francisco message.
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Representatives of Sir Walter Carpenter of Sydney, South Seas shipping mugnate who bought the ship, said she would be changed to Panamanian registry and would ply between West Coast ports and the South Pacific.
"IF I were sitting in Germany in 1941 I would be very worried month by month at the amount of material that is going to flow to us from the United States," C. E Wilson. General Motors
This statement was made by president, said the manufacture of parts also would begin immediately, Mr A. B. Purvis, head of the but the Kansas City plant would not British Purchasing Commission
ready start
Abol assemblies in New York, who has returned
Patiently waiting salling orders until late summer, Ils nnnounce-: ment id ant say when he expects to London to report. He added: for the last 3 years, the Kwan
Naturally we had a slow start with Yuan has lain in San Francisco Har- General Motors to reach its goal ut
wow factories, to be built. But, how
$04,000 bour, fully loaded with ຕາ 200 sub-assemblies a month.
through the preliminary cargo of serap iron, originally des- stages and we are dealing with antined for Japan,
er increasing quantity of proches
Employment For 40,000
WI fire'
tion.
At the peak of production, Wilson sak, General Motors will employ
Orders ro far completed or con- 40,000 men it aviation work alone. He said 15,000 workers will be em-tructed for amount to about £500,- ployed on parts and sub-assemblies, 900,000.
Aircraft bulks largest of all in our which will be built by, the Fisher Body Division at Detroit and Cleveders, and represents the majority
of expenditure. land.
Machine Tools
Crew Rioted
Meanwhile, her crew risted and afeials in Tokyo, Chungking andl Washington sought to settle questions over the Kwang Yuan's ownership and disposition of her cargo.
A suit which eventually reach
Supreme Court of the United resulted in a decision for
The company's plane motor pro- duction plans, Wilson said, "call" for Our next important need is mascl the an increase in the butput of Allison chine tools and the growth in thehr Stutes liquid-cooled engines from the pre-production in America is very In sent rate of 350 a month to 1,000 a presilve. month by autumn.
of
Merchant ships are also vital. Destroyers are not in my province to deal with.
China.
The vessel's original owners sold the freighter to a Chinese company in 1937, A Japanese company chur- tered the craft and loaded the cargo Ha comment on a report that the of serap iron here for delivery to potential output of United States Japan. Three Japanese officers and planes for Britain this winter was crew of 23 Chinese were placed 3OD D month
was-Ridiculously aboard her.
Air-Cooled Motors General Motors also has a $36,- 497,520 contract to buld 3,000 1'at & Whitnew radial air-cooled motors, and Wilson sald construction $24,000,000 plant to produce them at stall."
mouth the rate of 500
will Buick started soon by the
Motor Division. The location has not been announced.
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Present plans
Auto for using manufacturers as primary sub-con- structors for bomber parts call for sub-assemblies for 12,000 planes by General Motors, Chrysler and Ford, with no definite time limit.
At the rate of 200 a month, it would
Motors take General
20 months to fill its quota after getting into full production.
BATTLE DRESS CONTRACTS
Consul's Orders
Her sailing was interrupted by orders from the Chinese Consul, who refused to approve departure of the American customs would not clear
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GIRLS FLANK GUNS--Thoso girls of the British Auxiliary Tor ritorial Service are using an electrically synchronized recorder to photograph burst of shalls in relation to targot. Information helps gunners.
NAZI
SUGGESTION TO PETAIN
Wanted 2,000 Planes Made
IN order to "improve" economic conditions in non-occupied France, where the great majority of factories are idle because of lack of raw materials, the Nazis recently suggested that several aircraft works should he reopened to make planes for Germany.
They were ready to give or-in occupied as well an unoccupied ders for the buikling of 2,000 France.
would provide
Empty Harbours planes which
The only factories which are
those which have received orders employed workers,
Marshal Petain declined the fron the. Nozia and which are pro- viled with raw materials. There are "offer,"
no ships in the huge harbour a well-in-Marseilles; the only works which are formed neutral who until recently doing well are the P.L.M. factories was at Vichy. He is very pessimis- with whom the Germans have placed the regarding the economic situation a large order for rolling stock.
Contracts have just been signed ship with its scrap iron cargo, and work for many thousands of un- working in non-occupied France are
Seven months later, the Chinese crew rioted, chasing Japanese officers ashore. Then came lawsuits.
for the largest single order for serge battledress siree the war started her. 5,000,000 suits consisting of blouse and trousers. Nearly 250 contractors will be engaged on the work, using 9,000 miles of serge and 9,000 miles of lining, with 200,000,000 brass butions.
It was understood that the scrap iron would be, taken ashore to a San Francisco snelter.
This is reported by
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MORE POWERFUL FIGHTERS
Air Chief Hints of New Types.
An advance in the effectiveness of Spitfires and Hurricanes, and the development of new and better fighters were referred to by Air Marshal Sir Philip Joubert in a recent broadcast talk.
Dealing with our air attack, j
Sir Philip Joubert said:-
"One most satisfactory feature is the increase in our bombing effort. Two or three days ago we were able to strike in one night at Berlin, the Ruhr, the invasion ports, and at the big industrial elties of Northern Italy. These attacks were all in force and achieved important suc- cesses.
Mightiest Battleship
For Pacific
"We can hope from now onwards steadily to increase our pressure on Germany and on her ally, and by next
The U.S.S. North Carolina spring, when the flow of American gireraft, already very considerable, (35,000 tons), claimed to be the becomes a flood, we shall return to world's most powerful battle- Germany with sevenfold interest the
bombing that we have had to entureship, will be commissioned on At night when visibility was badt April 11, five months ahead of end when accurate shell fire was up-schedule. setting the moral of the Gennin
pilots and bomb almers, necuracy It is believed that she will be was bound to fall off very seriously, stationed in the Pacific, as the
for A.A. Fire Respect
flagship of the United States This was particularly so of the Navy. Her sistership, U.S.S. moment owing to the great height at Washington, is nearly ready, but which the Germans were flying. Our statistics went to show that in the the date of her commissioning is London area practically all the bomb not announced.
x was carried out at over 14,000ft.
Both vessels will have a speed of great was the respect of the Ger- man pilot for our A.A. fire that they more than 28 lenols, and will entry were very busy most of the time nine 18-inch guns. carrying out the most violent turns The North Carolina and the Wa-
shington were laid down in 1930. tight.
So
to left and
Developments are in and the said),
and indeed are aiready in use, greatly to Improve the performance of our Spitfires and Hurricanes. They will be faster, elimb higher, and wil be more heavily armed than those we have been using up to date.
On Jan. 6 the keel of the US. battleship Missouri (45,000 tons) was laid down in on American yard.
Last October the U.S. Third Nuvol District Commandant (Rear-Admiral Woodward) sold that the United States, would start to build battle- The Defiant, originally designed as ships of 50,000 to 60,000 tons within n night tighter ord used experi-n year.
The Defiant
mentally for a while by day, has how The largest warship afloat is the been restored to its proper role, and British battle-eruizer Hood (42,100 with certain developments that we tons). which was built during the
considering, should be very
are
effective.
PEPSODENT
On the stocks we have 1014-1010 war. seve several types of new and better fighters which should be as much of an improvement on the Spitfire out Turricane as these last were upon their predecessors, the Fury and the Gladiator; and, as you can expect, our new bombers will be equally as good.
The Pioneer Corps, Now
The title of the Auxillary Military Pioneer Corps hus been changed to that of the Pioneer Corps. The King has approved the change in view of the services which the corps has rendered.
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