CO129-571-15 Sino-Japanese War- manufacture and import of aircraft to China 18-1-1938 - 5-1-1939 — Page 56

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but in either case they would desire that the plant,

the factory

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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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