Show airplanes and ash trees A timber expert states that the demund for ash has gone up so enormously since gince we went in for airplane construction st on the present big scale that prices are fully three times what they were in prewar pre war days says london tit bits nothing but the very best english ash serves the purpose the finest in the world Is his verdict experiments peri ments with other wood no notably tally american spruce have yielded most disappointing results and it Is a curious fact due to climatic causes tb that at irish ash Is unsatisfactory too but an ash tree cannot be grown in a day the timber Is utterly worthless for airplane purposes unless it Is at least sixty years old it ts Is all the better if ac it Is double that ag ewhen som some e of the trunks enn can show chow a clear straight str alghi run of 80 86 feet or more |