INDUSTRY: On the Move

Among big new defense orders placed last week:

¶ General Motors’ Buick Division got a $25 million contract to tool up to produce the British-designed J-65 Sapphire jet engine (TIME, Oct. 16) for U.S. fighters. The actual engine order (amount not revealed) is the biggest single defense contract ever received by Buick.

¶ G.M.’s Chevrolet Division got the first installment of its biggest defense order: a contract to produce jet engines for the Air Force. Production site: an idle plant at Tonawanda, N.Y., where Chevrolet turned out 60,766 Pratt & Whitney radial engines during World War II.

¶ Packard Motor Car Co. got a $20 million contract to make diesel engines (135 h.p. to 800 h.p.) for the Navy.

¶ General Electric Co. announced that it will build a $15 million plant near Utica, N.Y., to produce radar equipment and other electronic goods for the military.