European collaboration in aeronautics

THE theme of an address given by Mr H. G. Conway, managing director of Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd., at the Hanover Fair Symposium on Advanced Technology during the course of the Hanover Air Show was on the necessity for European collaboration in the field of aeronautics. The question to be asked, he said, was if we in Europe, either as separate countries or collectively, could continue to compete in the industrial, particularly engineering, world with the U.S.A. and Russia if our relative expenditure on advanced technology continued to fall so far behind that achieved by the other two countries.