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Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Banks
As the Stations did have there own ORB, did anyone check them for entries concerning 100 octane fuel?
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I tried. The detail for each station varied, some did what you would expect as per the above, some only did entries for the station and ignored anything to do with the squadrons, and some were missing. Duxfords was missing two months of entries.
I also started to review the squadron records and what was interesting was that any squadron that formed after May 1940 had no mention of 100 octane at all and I checked these through to May 1941 by which time they certainly would have been using 100 octane. The inference I drew was that they didn't mention it as by then it was standard issue and therefore wouldn't be mentioned. This would support the view that the paper in May which referred to the stations concerned was talking about the Operational stations that had not been converted by April 1940.
I think its worth mentioning that Drem is in the North of Scotland. Not the first place I would issue 100 Octane too, if supply and distribution was to be limited.