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The National Aerospace Library Wartime Aircraft Production Statistics

n 6 September Mrs Bridget capacity of the British aircraft type. Includes summary of Total Labour Studies — OConigliaro presented to the industry and how it compared with anticipated production Comparison of British and German National Aerospace Library at America, Germany and Japan, and requirements for aircraft engines, Labour Forces. Report No 2. Farnborough the surviving includes a fascinating compilation propellers, turrets, machine and Ministry of Supply, London. 1947. aeronautical papers of her father, of detailed plans of aircraft cannon guns. Irregular pagination. Illustrated. James Valentine Connolly, FRAeS manufacturing sites/factories A statistical comparative analysis (1907-1993). Educated at Sydney around Britain (including details of Memorandum for Sir Charles of the total manpower used in the University, he served as a pilot in buildings, hangars and floor areas) Craven form Patrick Hennessey, British and German aircraft the Australian Citizen Air Force which would be of interest not only concerning Aircraft Production to industries 1940-1945. 1925-1930 and was Secretary of to aviation but also local historians: June 1943. Ministry of Aircraft the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Production, London. 1943. Overall Statistics of British, Australasian Branch 1930-1935. The Organisation and Duties of the American, German and Japanese He later emigrated to Britain Directorate General of Production Memorandum on American Aircraft Industries. Report No 4. where he served during WW2 as (‘Most Secret’). Ministry of Aircraft Production. Ministry of Aircraft Ministry of Supply, London. Assistant Director of Aircraft Production, London. 1939. 11pp. Production, London. 1939. 17pp. c.1947. Irregular pagination. Production at the Ministry of Includes summary of British A review of the production Illustrated. Aircraft Production [MAP] 1941- aircraft production levels arranged capacity of the American aircraft A statistical comparative analysis 1946 (later to be amalgamated by aircraft company at the industry including its efficiency of the aircraft production levels of into the Ministry of Supply). Post- outbreak of WW2. and manpower. the four major countries at war war his career included being Head during 1939-1944 including of the Department of Aircraft Target Aircraft Production Compilation of Production Graphs aircraft deliveries, average Economics and Production at the Programme and Provisioning for the American Aircraft Industry structural weight per airframe and newly formed College of Aircraft Programme and 1940- 1940-1944. Aircraft Procurement total labour force. Aeronautics at Cranfield and being 1942 (‘Most Secret’). Ministry of Board. 1940-1944. 48pp. a leading member of the Society’s Aircraft Production, London. Illustrated. Rate of Attainment of Peak Output Management Studies Group which 1940-1942. Records detailed month-by-month after First Delivery. Report No 5. was originally formed in 1967. Detailed statistical record of analysis of US production of Ministry of Supply, London. 1947. The J V Connolly papers British month-by-month aircraft aircraft armament, heavy 6pp. Illustrated. detailed below are of key historical production — including the bombers, engines, propellers A statistical analysis of actual importance recording in detail the production of the shadow concluding with a summary of deliveries of aircraft from 25 wartime aircraft production factories — arranged by aircraft airframe weight production. British factories during the period

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Left: Short Stirlings and Sunderlands (Leamington Spa), R Malcolm Ltd at the Short Queen’s Island factory (White Waltham), Marshall’s Flying in Belfast. RAeS (NAL) photo. School Ltd (Cambridge), Marston Excelsior Limited (Wolverhampton), Limited 1939-1946 taken to planned (Newtownards, Reading), Percival peak. Aircraft Ltd (Luton), Portsmouth Aviation Ltd (Portsmouth, ‘Time Cycle for Development and Christchurch, Rochester), Reid & Production of Aircraft’ and Sigrist Ltd (Desford), A V Roe & Co ‘Elapsed Time from Start of Ltd (Middleton, Bracebridge Heath, Project to Production. Report No Langar, Woodford), Saunders Roe 6’. Ministry of Supply, London. (Eastleigh, Cowes, Osborne), 1947. Irregular pagination. Limited Illustrated. (Prestwick), Ltd Includes table recording for a (Rochester), Short & Harland number of leading WW2 British (Altona, Belfast, Glen, Lindsay & military aircraft types the timescales involved from the date Dawnay, Hawlmark), Slingsby of formulation of requirement Sailplanes Ltd (Kirbymoorside), through to the date of the first Southern Aircraft (Gatwick) Ltd squadron operationally effective (Crawley), Turner Manufacturing with the type and when peak Co, Vickers-Armstrong Ltd production was reached. (Weybridge - Tumbling Bay, Brooklands House, Members Hill, Compilation of Plans of Aircraft Foxwarren, Pyrford, Wisley, Manufacturing Sites/Factories. Shawbury, Hursley Park, Swindon), Ministry of Supply, London. Vickers Aircraft Ltd (Chilbolton, c.1946-1947. 185pp. Eastleigh, Newbury, Trowbridge), Illustrates the site arrangement Western Airways Ltd (Weston- (including buildings, hangars, floor Super-Mare) and Westland areas) of Air Dispatch Ltd (Cardiff), Aircraft Ltd (Ilchester, Yeovil). Airwork General Trading Ltd (Gatwick), Ltd Analytical Section Bulletins. US Heavy Bomber Production Statistics (Aircraft Procurement Board — (Hamble), Airspeed Ltd Federal Aircraft Limited — August 1942). RAeS (NAL) photo. (Portsmouth, Christchurch, Analytical Section, Montreal. Drayton, Farlington, Langstone), 1944. Irregular pagination. Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth Ltd A detailed measurement analysis Program: SRI Project No 144 — Resources Control Office. (Babington, Whitley, Coventry, of performance man-hours of the prepared for United States Air Force 1944. 6pp. Bitteswell, Sywell), Aircraft Canadian aircraft industry — Air Materiel Command. Stanford Compilation of detailed statistical Ltd (, Syston, Thurmaston), originated by the Analytical Research Institute, Stanford, CA. graphs summarising American Ltd (Brough), Section of the Department of 1949. Irregular pagination. aircraft/engines/propellers Ltd Munitions and Supply — Aircraft Includes analysis of the Direct deliveries by type and the number (Wolverhampton), Bristol Production Branch. Manhours Progress Curve. of people employed in their Aeroplane Company Ltd (Filton - production. Rodney, West Works, East Works, Summary of American aircraft Proposals for a Course in Aircraft Gipsy Patch), Brooklands Aviation production 1940-1944. War Economics and Production at the The J V Connolly papers Ltd (Moulton, Sywell, Weybridge), Production Board. 1944. 6pp. College of Aeronautics. J V complement other key papers on Aircraft Co Ltd Illustrated. Connolly. College of Aeronautics, wartime aircraft production held in (Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City), An overview of American wartime Cranfield. c.1947-1948. Irregular the archives of the National Dowty Equipment Ltd aircraft production including its pagination. Aerospace Library at Farnborough (Cheltenham, Bath Road, distribution between fighters, including the papers of the Ashchurch, Windrush), Electro- bombers, transport and training Statistical Review 1939-1945 Advisory Committee of the Royal Hydraulics (Messier) Ltd aircraft including the Army Air (‘Secret’). Ministry of Aircraft Aeronautical Society to the (Warrington), Co Forces post-war planning charts. Production. 1946. 53pp. Ministers of Aircraft Production, Ltd (Preston, Salmesbury), Fairey Detailed statistical summary report the Reports of the Fedden Mission Aviation Co Ltd (Hamble, Hayes, Aircraft Production: Student by year/quarter of the British to America (December 1942 – Ringway, Stockport, Heston), Field Committee Report. The Industrial aircraft industry’s output during the March 1943), the Fedden Special Aircraft Services Ltd (Croydon, College of the Armed Forces, WW2 summarising deliveries of Technical Mission to Germany Hanworth), Ltd Washington, DC 1947-1948. aircraft, engines, aircraft and (June 1945), the Farren Mission to (Hamble), General Aircraft Ltd 115pp. engine accessories (carburettors/ Germany (June 1945) and the (Feltham, Lasham), Gloster Aircraft A detailed industry analysis of pumps/radiators/oil coolers), wartime intelligence reports Co Ltd (Hucclecote, Witcombe, American aircraft and engine propellers, armaments (guns/ (described in The Aerospace Uckington, Bentham, Moreton production during WW2 and in the turrets), spares, labour and raw Professional January 2010 pp 10- Valence), Ltd immediate post-war aftermath. materials by type/firm including 11). (Cricklewood, Radlett), Hawker RAF fighter aircraft in storage units. For any enquiries regarding this Aircraft Ltd (Langley), Martin Final Report on Relationships for material, please contact the Hearn Ltd (Hooton Park), Helliwells Determining the Optimum Aircraft, Engine and Propeller librarians at Farnborough Ltd (Walsall), Heston Aircraft Ltd, Expansibility of the Elements of a Production (‘Confidential’). Report T +44 (0)1252 701038 / 701060 Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Co Ltd Peacetime Aircraft Procurement No 15. Aircraft Production Board E [email protected]

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