Canadian Aeroplanes Limited—Monthly Value of Output
Grand Total $13,577.000.00

The Chief Engineer of this section directed executive work, his assistant supervised construction. With them were the heads of the draughting room, the estimating section and the construction purchasing department, together with the chief electrician, the plumbing superintendent, the heating superintendent, road superintendent and the head of the commissary and transport section. In the section office a staff of fifty was employed, when in the middle of October, 1918, there were 2,200 men on the payroll. The following diagram illustrates the organization:—

Chief Engineer
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Resident EngineersAssistant ChiefChief DraughtsmenSecretary
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ProductionChiefPlumbingHeatingRoadsBuyerCommissaryAccountant
ClerkElectricianSup’t.Sup’t.Sup’t.Manager
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CommissaryStoresTransport

The Construction Section was, in fact, pivoted so that it might at any moment turn its attention to new work without departing from its main and central programme, and to this flexibility is attributable the unquestionable success it achieved.

[CANADIAN AEROPLANES LIMITED.]

This organization saw the light officially in December, 1916, and in twenty-one months had turned out some 2,900 aeroplanes, valued at nearly fourteen million dollars. Incidentally, the factory covered about six acres, and employed something over two thousand hands.

It was some time before Canadians realized that the undertaking was that of the Imperial Government acting through the Imperial Munitions Board, more familiarly known as the “I.M.B.” The primary purpose was that of supplying aeroplanes for the Royal Flying Corps, but actually some four and a half millions’ worth of output went to aid training in the United States.