HC Deb 08 November 1939 vol 353 c192
11. Captain Strickland

asked the Secretary of State for Air how many road motor vehicles have been impressed and requisitioned, respectively, by his Department; and how many of these were the property of railway companies?

The Secretary of State for Air (Sir Kingsley Wood)

No road motor vehicles have been requisitioned by the Air Ministry, but 971 have been purchased by impressment. None of these was the property of railway companies.