Planning in wartime : aircraft production in Britain, Germany and the USA
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Planning in wartime : aircraft production in Britain, Germany and the USA
(St. Antony's/Macmillan series)
Macmillan in association with St. Anthony's College, Oxford, 1991
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Bibliography: p. 191-192
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The first study of the Ministry of Aircraft Production, this book examines the war-time policy and operation of the planning department. Topics covered include the organization of the department, production planning and specific programmes.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Planning and co-ordination. Part 2 Planning in MAP: a planning department?
- the heavy bomber programme
- putting the statistics in order
- production programmes
- aircraft components
- aero-engines
- contracts
- the role of production programmes
- technical guidance
- target or realistic programmes
- control over programmes
- planning as co-ordination
- changes in programme
- ministerial changes in programme - the heavy bomber programme, the Super-Wellington, Humpty-Dumpty
- the "healthy" aircraft programme. Part 3 Organisation: the planning staff
- ministers
- relations with top officials
- relations with the Air Ministry - in Whitehall, in Harrogate - spare components
- relations with firms - aircraft, engines and propellers
- MAP and aircraft requirements
- labour supply. Part 4 The engine programme: development problems
- co-ordination problems
- co-ordination with American supplies
- sharing out Packard engines
- expanding Packard
- problems of one - and two-stage engines
- Bristol engines
- Napier engines. Part 5 Propeller planning: slowness in development
- the propeller programme
- design changes
- the propeller shortage
- the rack type propeller.
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