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...into production in a U. S. factory. Last week Allison's production was reputedly rising from a monthly rate of about 30 to its fall quota of 125. It still had a long way to go to its estimated production top, 500-600 a month. The Curtiss factory at Buffalo was meanwhile howling for Allisons for its P-4O pursuit ships, was understood to have 70 to 100 waiting for engines. Bell Aircraft, manufacturer of the speedy Airacobra, was waiting...
...wishful optimist is Theodore Paul Wright. Mr. Wright, Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s vice president of engineering, last week was at work for Mr. Knudsen. In Aviation's July issue, Expert Wright appraised the aircraft industry, concluded that the U. S. may be able to better the Germans' rate of increase in their air force (from 4,300 planes in 1936 to a reported 31,000 last May). Wrote Mr. Wright (before he joined the Defense Commission): "It is estimated that an airplane production rate of approximately 2,000 a month, or 24,000 a year...
Apprentice Schools: Operated by a few large plants, training a few thousand technicians and mechanics. Examples: Pratt & Whitney (enrollment: 272); Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute (enrollment: several hundred Army Air Corps men, 1,000 civilians...
Last week Westinghouse Electric's shrewd Chairman A. W. Robertson returned to Pittsburgh from Washington saying that mass production of shells, gun mounts, fuse timers, motors and radio equipment (which Westinghouse is able to turn out) would take four to 24 months to organize. In Aviation Curtiss-Wright's Vice President Theodore Paul Wright, analyzing the requirements of President Roosevelt's goal of 50,000 airplanes a year, said that such a rate of production could be reached only after the U. S. has spent five years and $572,000,000 on new plants. These views helped...
...fortnight Mr. Ford predicted in an interview that, with expert assistance, he could produce 1,000 planes a day. Last week Mr. Ford asked the War Department to send him a typical Army airplane and somebody to explain it to him. This week a swift (370 m.p.h.), single-engined Curtiss P-4O was flown to Detroit, there to be gone over by Henry Ford's bright old eyes. If he puts his mind to it, Henry Ford probably can produce planes in quantity; he certainly can produce aircraft engines. This week he announced that Ford Motor Co. is going...