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Originally Posted by winny

The units concerned are all frontline Spitfire and Hurricane units.

That's your assumption, against what the sentence means. You are welcome to prove it with evidence.

Plus, if one reads the documentation apart from the single page you supplied, it makes it clear that it names specific Bomber Stations, and that Bomber Stations have priority over specific Fighter Stations. It means something explictely different than "all frontline Spitfire and Hurricane units" which has to be stressed to be hoghwash and that it was made up, typically by the fans of the aircraft. There is no trace of anything like that in the available papers.








Hang on, you can just say something like 'I believe German 100 octane was better" without anything to support it. Double standards.

Red Herring. I can, but its not the subject. Read some of the documents on my site. As a matter of fact, one of the driving forces behind British 100 octane import was the fact that the Germans, with their large synthetic capacity, were seen to be in a good position to produce 100 octane domestically.

OK so the first Middle east (Iraq?) was 12th August, what about all the 100 Octane we got from America in '38, '39' '40?

This was already answered in the source, just read it again.

I also do not intend to answer some of your other questions again, since I've already answered them. Please read them again.

The RAF painted '100' on the engine cowling of converted Spitfires. Obviously they would only need to do this whilst there were 2 types of fuel being used at the same time to ensure the correct fuel was used. I can't find a picture any later than July 1940 where '100' is on there. If they got rid of that then that must mean the conversion was complete

Again, a wild assumption - and one that is based on merely that _you_ haven't seen something, and this MUST mean something you would like to be true.

Reminds me of this one, sorry for the pun.

http://youtu.be/30x8VTCaOws

Consumption of 100 octane fuel during the Battle of Britain was 58,000 tons
I ton of fuel is just over 14 barrels, 35 gallons in a barrel. 1 ton of fuel = 490 gallons. That is 28 million gallons. So by your number of 125 converted aircraft that would mean average use per Aircraft of 227,000 gallons in 12 weeks. What? Where did it all go?

Again, assumptions and oversimplifications.. I suggest you read the previous thread, where fuel requirements for non-operational flights, engine manufacturers were discussed in detail.