[QUOTE=41Sqn_Banks;399463]I read it a bit different. "Issue of this fuel to certain units in the Bomber Command will, however, take precedence over the units equipped with the above mentioned types of aeroplanes." There is a clear constraint on "certain" units in Bomber Command but no constraint on units with Hurricane, Spitfire and Defiant.
Only if you simply forget about the preceeding sentence - ""serving the fighter stations concerned". Its a quite clear constraint, repeated again in the April - May docs, posted previously.
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The paper reads to me as a request, not an approval.
It was also shown here:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=121
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=125
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=133
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=135
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that the "certain units" of Bomber Command had received 100 octane fuel until May 1940. And then the Fighter stations started to receive 100 octane fuel, which pretty much agrees with the reported use of 100 octane fuel in several fighter squadrons starting from May 1940.
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The 'certain' restristion was not limited to Bomber Command. Subsequent papers keep speaking of 'certain' concerned etc. fighter stations the same as 'certain' concerned bomber stations.