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THE BRITISH AIR COMMISSION AND LEND-LEASE

Written by K.J. Meekcoms
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd. in 2000
ISBN: 0851302912

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Front cover

Cover of THE BRITISH AIR COMMISSION AND LEND-LEASE by K.J. Meekcoms

Contents

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • PART 1
  • The Work of the British Air Commission
  • In the Beginning
  • Early Days in the USA
  • Cash and Carry
  • The British Purchasing Commission
  • The Mustang
  • The Meredith Effect
  • Other Contracts for US Aircraft & Equipment
  • The British Air Commission
  • Large Plans - But Small Deliveries
  • The Run-Up to Lend-Lease
  • The Arsenal of Democracy
  • A Changed Role
  • British Designed Engine Accessories Manufactured in the USA
  • The Modification of Lend-Lease Aircraft
  • Aircraft Materials
  • Lend-Lease in Reverse
  • The Canadian Dimension
  • The End
  • Postscript
  • Acknowledgements, Bibliography, Terms and Abbreviations
  • TABLES
  • Table 1: Expenditure on Aircraft and Equipment
  • Table 2: Air Estimates
  • Table 3: British Aircraft Orders in the US at 1st November 1940
  • Table 4: Engine Daughter Firms
  • Table 5: Aircraft Daughter Firms
  • Table 6: Board of Trade Requirements
  • Table 7: British Supplies of Munitions
  • Table 8: Production of Aircraft in Canada 1939-1945
  • APPENDICES
  • Appendix 1: The British Air Commission - circa 1940-41
  • Appendix 2: List of BAC Resident AID Units - circa 1941-42
  • PART 2
  • Summary of American and Canadian-built Aircraft allocated to the British
  • Summary: US Aircraft allocated to the RAF
  • Summary: US Aircraft allocated to the RN
  • Summary: Canadian-produced Aircraft allocated against UK Requirements under Lend-Lease & Mutal Aid
  • Aircraft accepted from BAC Cash Contracts and Received under Lend-Lease Requisitions: Allocated to the RAF; Allocated to the RN
  • Canadian-produced Aircraft allocated against British Requirements under Lend-Lease and Mutal Aid
  • UK and Dominion Aircraft receiving Lend-Lease Engines
  • UK and Dominion Aircraft receiving Lend-Lease Propellers
  • PART3
  • US Aircraft Profile of those Types purchased bv the Air Ministry, BPC/BAC and supplied under Lend-Lease Requisitions - 1938-1945, with details of engines and propellers supplied as spares under Lend-Lease for British use.
  • The Designation and Names of US Military Aircraft
  • The Designation of US Military Aero-Engines
  • APPENDICES
  • Appendix 3 Broken and Irregular Sequences of RAF and USAAF Serials on Aircraft Allocated to the RAF
  • Appendix 4 Broken and Irregular Sequences of RN, USN, and USAAF Serials on Aircraft Allocated to the RN
  • PART 4
  • A Summary of the British Ministry Inspection and Contracts Administration Procedure - circa 1938-39