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ADVERTISEMENT 



This pamphlet is an extract from the Report for the year 1917, of 

 the War Cabinet of Great Britain relating to supply of aircraft. 

 It is reprinted with the permission of Lord Reading, the British Am- 

 bassador. 



The description given of the difficulties in the way of obtaining a 

 supply of aircraft is so accurate and is so general in its application 

 to all countries that it is believed it should be given as wide a circu- 

 lation as possible in America. Its application to the American aircraft 

 situation is evident if we remember that Great Britain has been at 

 war since August, 1914, and that every resource of the country, 

 famous for generations as the center of mechanical developments, has 

 been applied to the problem of the production of aircraft. This 

 enables us to appreciate more clearly the progress made by the United 

 States in 191 7- 18. 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 69, No. 7. 



