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Nearly all the warplane engines made in the U. S. are produced by two companies: Curtiss-Wright and United Aircraft's Pratt & Whitney division. Last week both companies put out promising engine news. Curtiss-Wright's President Guy Warner Vaughan mounted a tractor-plow, broke ground for a huge new factory at Lockland (Hamilton County), Ohio. Pratt & Whitney's co-founder and chairman, Frederick Brant Rentschler, opened two additions to his factory at East Hartford, Conn., announced that still more space will be ready next spring...
...month. Thanks largely to orders placed by France and Great Britain last year, this total represents a tremendous advance (Pratt & Whitney, for example, was turning out only 100,000 h.p. a month in early 1939). New shops to be completed early next year will up the joint capacity of Curtiss-Wright and Pratt & Whitney to a phenomenal 4,000 engines a month. Ford, Packard, Studebaker, other automakers should begin to produce aircraft engines late...
Theory since last month has been that the Army buys all Curtiss-Wright engines, the Navy all Pratt & Whitney engines (for both services). This procedure, supposed to simplify procurement and cut out much red tape and duplication, has helped to do both. But the Army and the Navy are still unable to agree on uniform engines of the same types, still demand their own peculiar furbelows. Result: continued lost motion, wastage, delay...
Three U. S. fighting planes are built around the Allison engine: Bell's Airacobra; Curtiss-Wright's snappy P-4O (also made in Buffalo) ; Lockheed's twin-engined P-38. Curtiss-Wright last week had its P-4O production up to seven a day, for the moment had enough Allisons, but only because Bell and Lockheed did not yet need them in quantity. Both soon will; there will not be enough for all three for months. One or more will have to finish fuselages and wings, store them and wait for engines...
...expected: all new engines have "bugs," and the liquid-cooled Allison was a daring departure from the radial, air-cooled engines which had become standard in the U. S. In August, Allison expected to turn out 130 engines, actually produced 80, most of which went to Curtiss-Wright. These still had bugs, were limited to 950 instead of their rated 1,050 h.p. Last week the Army heard good Allison news for a change: that the last bugs had been eliminated, that Allison from now on would turn up full horsepower. Allison's production schedule called...