Stella & Rose's Books

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