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but in either case they would desire that the plant,
the factory
foo
etc., fotee bee
tractées should be obtained from
this country, and for this reason they would prefer
that any Anglo-American enterprise should be
predominantly Anglo. It would be more economical to
avoid local competition if a joint Anglo-American
undertaking were established rather than the Governor's
suggestion of one English and one American factory.
in present one?
Yorking the
to any
The Board is afraid/to commit itself view of
the considerations applicable to the long term
question raised by the Governor as to the future
development of aircraft manufacturing establishments
in Hong Kong.
The information which we have given to the
Governor so far is contained in No. 90 which seems
to me to have constituted a fairly substantial answer
to his enquiries possibly an answer which the Air
Ministry in their present doubts would now consider
to have been too forthcoming. We still have no
official information as to the attitude of the Anglo-
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American wveraft company to the proposal that they
should start up their enterprise in Burma rather than
in Hong Kong. As regards the local Chine se group,
or fall
we must assume that they stand SYM
by their
request for permission to operate locally in Hong Kong.
Perhaps the best means of making headway
with giving the Government such further information
as we can at this stage would be to obtain the
concurrence of the Foreign Office, Air Ministry and
the Board of Trade in the draft herewith.
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