- Title: King George VI tours aircraft works
- Date: 13th December 1937
- Summary: SLATE INFORMATION: The King Sees Aircraft in the Making ENGLAND: Various: EXT/INT King George VI and Lord Swinton, Secretary of State for Air, visit aircraft factories at Weybridge and Cricklewood AEROPLANES - R.A.F. King Visits Vickers & Hanley Page Aircraft Factories making R.A.F. Planes FIELDEN, Wing Commander w. King George VI at Aircraft Factories. GEORGE VI Visits Hanley Page & Vickers Aircraft Factories at Cricklewood & Weybridge respectively SWINTON, Viscount & Viscountess w. King at Aircraft Factories. Royalty; Industries, Trades and Crafts manufacturing, manufacture, Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton, build, Secretary of State for Air, fighters, bombers, fighter, bomber, construction, re-armament, rearmament, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Edward Hedley 'Mouse' Fielden, Captain of the King's Flight, S. Smith & Sons, Edgware Road, Royal Air Force, RAF, expansion, expand, anniversary, salute, guns, remembrance, memory, honour
- Embargoed: 28th December 1937 12:00
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- Location: United Kingdom
- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Royalty,Defence / Military
- Reuters ID: LVA8805M9IRAOORK7CF9MTDQSW0S
- Story Text: King George VI and Lord Swinton visit airplane factories at Weybridge and Cricklewood on the first anniversary of his accession to the throne
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