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Originally Posted by TheGrunch
As Kurfurst noted in the thread on ww2aircraft.net, that particular "Spitfire and Hurricane units" is an unnecessary alteration made by Mike Williams and it actually says "the Units concerned".
However I think the first quote you posted gets us *most of the way* toward saying that 100 octane was available at all operational units, i.e. "issue will be made as soon as the fuel is available in bulk at the distribution depots serving the Fighter Stations concerned".
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I don't really know enough about it! But I do know that there was a conversion involved to the Merlin and that if the fuel was at a certain airfield then some of the aircraft must therefore have been converted (or were in the process of being converted). It wasn't a complicted procedure.
Stocks were ample (given total usage for the battle of 55,000 tons).
so I think it's pretty safe to assume 100 octane to be in use by most if not all RAF frontline fighter sqns by June '40