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as the "final reserve" which brings the grand total of aircraft in Great Britain up to about 3,700 planes.
  Each unit has been issued a complete complement of machines.  The pursuit units at home carry fifty per cent in what is known as "immediate reserve".  These machines are equipped with motors and can be put in serviceable condition at very short notice. For two and three-seater squadrons, the immediate reserve is seventy-five per cent, and for multi-motored units one hundred and fifty per cent.  For the units overseas, the immediate reserve is one hundred per cent.  The immediate reserve is carried either with the unit itself or in a park directly behind the unit. 
  A considerable number of machines have been constructed since the War, but most of these have been small orders of from three to twenty-five machines and have been constructed for either experimental purposes or for service tests with units.
  The British have always had a good supply system, and their work at the present time is no exception to this rule.
  Their civilian aviation is organized under a Department of Civil Aviation.  They have something the same organization the French have -- that is, airports with the necessary adjuncts of custom houses, hotels, medical facilities, fine meteorological

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