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Originally Posted by Crumpp
That document does not look altered one bit...not at all, lol.
Of course you can save a fuel you are not consuming at a high rate. They wanted 800,0000 tons on hand before the first operational aircraft used it, remember??
Look at the fuel at the airfields in your first document. 100 Octane is less than 38% of the fuel on hand in June-August.
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10,000 tons = 3,150,000 imperial gallons consumed per month June-August
Here are the documents which show the cumulative fuel stocks from which the figures in red are taken:
17th Weekly Oil Position Report Dec 31 1939:
24th WOPR
25th WOPR 28 Feb 1940
28th WOPR 17 Mar 1940
33rd WOPR 23 April 1940
Note also how much 100 Octane fuel is being stocked outside of Britain ie; West of Suez - the only other active war theatre was France and, later Norway.
And the reasons why Crumpp's reasoning that stocks of 800,000 tons was required, based on pre-war plans, is so erroneous (Oil HMSO Payton-Smith)
The pre-war plans were based on an assumption that American supplies would be withheld and that losses due to air attack would be heavy. Using pre-war plans to decide what happened in wartime is a waste of time; as is obvious here, those plans for stocks of 800,000 tons were not realised even two years into the war:
Also note that stocks of 100 Octane v Other Grades reached near parity in May 1940 294,000 tons v 298,000 tons, and by August, when permission was given to use 100 Octane in all commands, it was the dominant fuel.
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Originally Posted by Crumpp
It is 10,000 tons at the airfields and not in the strategic reserves. It is not 10,000 tons in airplanes.
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Prove it by providing one single WW2 RAF or Air Ministry document which says that the fuel was merely kept at airfields and not consumed. By the same reasoning it could be argued that the RAF didn't consume "Other Grades" of fuel either, which makes one wonder what was used instead of aviation fuel?