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1942
1942 - 1245.PDF
JUNE IITH, 1942 FLIGHT 589 BEHIND THE LINES Service and Industrial News from the Inside of Axis and Enemy-occupied Countries Kawanishi THIS company, which according to German sources is the largest and most efficient of the Japanese aircraft firms, is reported to be expanded further. Last October the capital of this com pany was doubled to the amount of 15 million yen. Output Estimate ACCORDING_to Spanish sources Lt. Colonel Laguet, formerly French Air •attache in Moscow, is said to have ^recently stated that the aircraft produc tion of Russia is equal to that of the British Empire, while the production of actual general war materials is greater than that of any belligerent power. For Air France ? THE S.N.C.A. du Sud-Ouest has com pleted the development of a new commercial transport aircraft Bloch 161. The aircraft is powered with four Gnome- Rhone 14 N.38 or 14 N.39 14-cylinder, air-cooled twin-row radials. On a recent test the aircraft was flown'to Marseilles- Marignane in unoccupied France, and it is reported that Air France is consider ing placing an order for thirty machines of this type. French Fuel A VICHY sponsored company for the hydrogenation of coal has been registered in Paris. The new " Com- pagnie Centrale d'Hydrogenation et de Synthese " is to build the first plant at Fuveau (Aix-en-Provence) with a capa city of 25,000 tons benzine and 25,000 tons Methanol. It is proposed to adopt the Fischer-Tropsch process for the pro duction. It appears, however, that the Lt. Gen. Tomoyaki Yamashita, C.-in-C. Japanese FpjxevS.W. Pacific. TO WHAT AIR BASE USES : A light tank, relegated to the role of airfield tractor, pulling a bomb train. The tank appears to be a French type—probably a captured one. construction of the first plant is being delayed because of the lack of the neces sary quantities of high-grade steel. ' For the "Luftwaffe" THE German Press and broadcast announces that a special appeal is being made to pupils of the sixth to eighth forms at German secondary schools to volunteer for training for per manent commissions with the Luftwaffe. Applicants born in 1923, 1924 and later, who will register their applications before June 30th, will receive the confirmation of their acceptance before July 1st. Pupils of the seventh and eighth forms will be called up immediately, and the sixth-formers at some later date. Field Air Mail A SQUADRON equipped with Ju 52 machines is to maintain a special service between the Russian fron't and Germany for the benefit of the German troops. The main task of this communi cation squadron will be the transport of mail for the troops. This is the first time the German troops in Russia have been given the opportunity of sending and receiving their mail by air. Every soldier and his family are each given two air mail stamps per month. Since the number of the Ju 52s placed in this service is in no proportion to the requirements of the troops, the issue of these field air mail stamps is to be stag gered, and, indeed, the whole service is rather of a symbolic nature. German A.R.P. IT seems as if the Germans were lately paying more attention to their A.R.P. problems. . . . Thus on May 29th, the sirens of Berlin were tested. The Government of the Reich has entrusted the mayors and chairmen of local administrations with the care of the bombed-out and wounded. In co operation with the local chiefs of civil defence these authorities have been ordered to keep a reserve of housing facilities for the bombed-out. The District Chief of Police of Ham burg has ordered householders to re move one complete frame with glass from all double windows, and to store it in a cellar as a replacement of broken windows after further air raids. In future no window repairs are to be made with,- out special permission. All householders are ordered to have their house numbers displayed in phos phorous paint on fences or such other places where they can be seen without the use of a torch. Denationalisation THE Vichy Government appears to be adopting a policy of denationalising aircraft firms which were taken over by the State under the Air Minister, Pierre Cot. While in the majority of cases the nationalisation was effected quite smoothly, the new Vichy policy is revers ing the process. Recently the " S.N.C. de Moteurs" has been returned to the ownership of the '' Societe des Moteurs et Automobiles Lorraine." It is apparently in this way that the Vichy Government expects to remedy the fatal position of the aircraft industry for which nationalisation is blamed, but the cause of which should be sought in a variety of sources. Junkers Ramifications THE close collaboration of the Junkers Company with other industrial firms has been recently tightened up. At present this collaboration is demon strated by a number of changes in the management of the firms concerned. Thus Dr. S. Rothe, a member of the Board of the Frankfurter Maschinenbau A.G., was appointed to be Managing Director of the Junkers Aircraft and Engine Works at Dessau. The previous Managing Director, Dr. Koppenberg, was entrusted with the control of the German Light Metal Production. It is apparently through his initiative that the Hansa Light Metal Company and the Nordische Aluminium A.G. were formed, which are closely- linked up with the Junkers. But the activities of the new German Light Metal Controller are even wider. He has been instrumental in the recent reorganisation of the Argus Engine Com pany of Berlin-Reinickendorf. The branch works of the Argus Company at Karlsruhe has been converted to an independent company named the " Sud den tsche Arguswerke, H. Koppenberg," and thus a new link in the ramifications of the Junkers has been created. £," fi J
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