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Show BAN IS EASED ON POSTWAR GOODS Making Models of Civilian Items Permitted in Latest Order. WASHINGTON. Industry received re-ceived the go-ahead signal recently to build models of postwar goods embodying new .materials and wartime war-time Improvements in design and technology. The war production board action is effective at once. It is the second of Chairman Donald M. Nelson's four orders, opposed by the armed services until a recent compromise which delayed some of the program, paving the way for ultimate reconversion recon-version of industry to consumer goods. The permission to build experimental experi-mental models, if neither labor nor machinery Is diverted from war work, applies to passenger cars, refrigerators, re-frigerators, civilian airplanes, vacuum vacu-um cleaners, television equipment, radios and numerous other products, even including juke boxes and vending machines. Removes Limitations. In the case of forbidden articles, no assembly of experimental models mod-els has been possible for more than two years. In some other cases, like bicycles, WPB's "victory model" regulations allowed experimentation only within the rigid, stripped-down stripped-down manufacturing standards imposed im-posed to save metal. The new order not only removes such limitations but affords priority aid under the fairly high rating of AA-3 previously available to research re-search laboratories. Any company may spend up to $5,000 a month in a single plant in production of models without consulting con-sulting WPB. Technical staffs or other employes may not be diverted from war work. Samples Barred. "Model? may nyt be dii'tributert to promote sales or create demand, and shall not be displayed to the trade or the public" the board ruled. "Production of samples is specifically prohibited, and models of houses, buildings or structures involving in-volving construction may not be made." The action is expected to help industry in-dustry get designs ready in advance for the resumption of civilian goods, and to stimulate the use of plastics, light metals, and other materials which have gained new prominence during the war. The first of Mr. Nelson's reconversion recon-version orders revoked the prohibi-ition prohibi-ition against non-war use of aluminum alu-minum and magnesium. The third permits manufacturers to place orders or-ders now for machines and tools which will be needed when peacetime peace-time production starts. |
