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Originally Posted by Crumpp
The notes are gospel Winny. For a short period of time a technical order will override them until the next edition of the Operating Notes is published.
Yes.....with a total of 16 squadrons converted to 100 Octane sometime in September.
That is exactly what I said I believed happenend. Both the Operating Notes and Table II showing fuel at the airfields point to that same conclusion.
For the last 20 pages I have been called every name in the book for stating that!!
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Firstly the meeting was held before the war started at a point when nobody, not even Hitler thought the war would start until 41 at the earliest, the British were looking at '42 as the probable start. This meeting was followed by other meetings that are again documented here that superseded the original meeting due to the minor inconvienience of Hitler deciding to risk war and invade Poland.
There were meetings held in '39 that were specifically held to secure and produce 100 octane without having to rely on the USA. In 1939 the government spent the most amount of money on any single production facility for the entire war when they contracted TRIMPELL to build the Heysham iso-octane plant, who's specific purpose was to convert 87 into 100. Why would they do this if they were expecting the total consumption to be 10,000 tons per annum, as Morgan and shacklady say, when they already had 100,000 tons in stock.. 10 years supply according to that meeting. See next point.
Morgan and shacklady states that the same meeting decided that the change over would result in "consumption of 10,000 tons per annum" the reserve of 800,000 tons was, if you look at the relevant documents already posted in this thread, for the entire RAF as projected for 1943.
I noticed you gloss over the fact that Deere, Wellum, Brothers, Hillary, Lane, Viggors, Page, Malan and a few others mention in their memoirs that the changeover happened in the Spring of 1940.
At the end of the day I don't give a shit what you think. I value people who were there, and who were writing diaries at the time over your desperate clinging to a meeting that was held when Britain was in the process of re arming for a war they were expecting in 2 or 3 years. I mean.. Who exactly are you? Actually don't answer that, I don't care.