The Committee, among whom are Major-General Sir Frederick Sykes (Controller-General
of Civil Aviation), on the other hand, in their general remarks, emphasize the urgency of the need for a subsidy. In spite of anything that can be done, the aircraft manufaoturing industry must shrink very much from its war-time magnitude. " The existence of a healthy aerial transport industry will go to ensure the supply of material to the R.A.F. " (they surely might have added that it alone could ensure an adequate supply of experienced pilots), " and will materially reduce the cost of that body. It is of the highest importance that the British prestige in air development won during the war should not be lost, . . . but, it rests with British private enterprise to pioneer the way, to develop types of machines, and to establish experimental and demonstration .routes."
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