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
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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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