Former MP for Melton
asked the Minister of Aircraft Production how many nearly new light aircraft of a kind suitable for employment for private flying and the light aeroplane clubs are now in the process of destruction by aircraft firms under orders from his Department; and whether instead they will be retained for post-war civil training.
asked the Minister of Aircraft Production why an aircraft contractor in the Manchester area employing upwards of 600 persons has been notified that his contract for repairs is terminated, whereas the Aviation Repairs Organisation at Oxford, who have issued this order in a letter dated 8th May, were trying to find capacity for repairing aircraft of a similar type.
I wish to say a word on behalf of the Auxiliary Air Force. Not very much has been said during the war about that Force, but I think that everybody in the country realises the wonderful show they have put up in the war. I am certain that throughout the country they are held in higher esteem than ever before. Those of us who are closely associated with the Auxiliary Air Force, whose members...
It is a question of the placing of aerodromes. I should not like to land on most parts of Wales.
asked the Secretary of State for Air (1) whether he has considered the representations from the Leicestershire and Rutland Territorial Association with a view to the formation of an auxiliary air squadron for those counties as soon as possible after the war; (2) whether he is able to make a statement on the future of the Auxiliary Air Force after the war?
asked the Prime Minister whether it is proposed to adopt a system of national military training after the war?
During the many years I have sat in the House of Commons this is the first occasion on which I can remember a whole day being set apart for a discussion on civil aviation and it is a red-letter day in the history of those Members who have been trying to press on various Governments for many years the importance of this form of transport. We are particularly indebted to the hon. Members who...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether it is the intention of the Government to maintain the Air Training Corps after the termination of the war?
