HC Deb 29 October 1945 vol 415 cc199-200W
Commander Maitland

asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the need to improve the quality and suitability of agricultural machinery in use in this country, he will take steps to bring over a selection of modern agricultural machinery from Germany and to permit its use by some British farmers for the purposes of operational research which may lead to an improvement in the designs of our own machinery.

Mr. T. Williams

My Department is in communication with the trade association of the British agricultural engineering industry with a view to arranging for a visit to Germany of a small representative team to investigate recent developments in the design and production of German agricultural machinery. It would be one of the duties of this team to indicate machines of special interest, so that arrangements might be made for specimen machines to be brought to this country for trial.