AEROPLANES AND SEAPLANES.

HC Deb 21 February 1927 vol 202 cc1411-2W

Lieut.-Commander BURNEY

asked the Secretary of State for Air the number

of chemicals and oils, engineering, shipbuilding and ship-repairing,, and canal, river, dock and harbour services?

Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND

The following Table gives the desired information:

Sir S. HOARE

Comparable official figures are only available for civil air transport mileage, and not for civil aircraft hired for joy-riding, photography, etc.

The civil air transport mileage was as follows:—

of aeroplanes and seaplanes of all types ordered by the Government to be con structed in Great Britain between the 1st November, 1917, and the 1st November, 1918, for use with the British and Allied Forces?

Sir S. HOARE

The answer is 32,450 aeroplanes and 1,697 seaplanes.