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Royal Air Force Historical Society Journal 35 ROYAL AIR FORCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL 35 2 The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the contributors concerned and are not necessarily those held by the Royal Air Force Historical Society. First published in the UK in 2005 by the Royal Air Force Historical Society All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the Publisher in writing. ISSN 1361 4231 Printed by Advance Book Printing Unit 9 Northmoor Park Church Road Northmoor OX29 5UH 3 ROYAL AIR FORCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY President Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham GCB CBE DFC AFC Vice-President Air Marshal Sir Frederick Sowrey KCB CBE AFC Committee Chairman Air Vice-Marshal N B Baldwin CB CBE FRAeS Vice-Chairman Group Captain J D Heron OBE Secretary Group Captain K J Dearman Membership Secretary Dr Jack Dunham PhD CPsychol AMRAeS Treasurer J Boyes TD CA Members Air Commodore H A Probert MBE MA *J S Cox Esq BA MA *Dr M A Fopp MA FMA FIMgt *Group Captain C J Finn MPhil RAF *Wing Commander W A D Carter RAF Wing Commander C Cummings Editor & Publications Wing Commander C G Jefford MBE BA Manager *Ex Officio 4 CONTENTS THE EARLY DAYS by Wg Cdr Larry O’Hara 8 SUPPLY COMES OF AGE by Wg Cdr Colin Cummings 19 SUPPLY: TWO WARTIME EXAMPLES by Air Cdre Henry 34 Probert EXPLOSIVES by Wg Cdr Mike Wooldridge 41 NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND No 94 MU, RAF BARNHAM by 54 Air Cdre Mike Allisstone THE CLOSURE OF No 11 MU, RAF CHILMARK by Wg Cdr 62 Mike Wooldridge MORNING DISCUSSION 64 FUELS by Air Cdre Andy Spinks 68 THE SUPPLY BRANCH AND MOBILITY by Wg Cdr David 75 Powell MOVEMENTS AND THE SUPPLY BRANCH by Gp Capt 80 Duncan Grant POST-WW II IMPERATIVES FOR SUPPLY by Air Cdre Mike 88 Allisstone THE ELECTRONIC ERA by Wg Cdr Colin Cummings 96 SUPPORT FOR THE RAF IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Air Chf 111 Mshl Sir Michael Alcock FULL CIRCLE by Air Cdre Nick Morris 121 AFTERNOON DISCUSSION 130 SUPPORT FOR THE RAF IN THE 21st CENTURY – A 134 REBUTTAL by Air Cdre M J Allisstone AIR MOBILITY – A game for 500 or more players 137 FEEDBACK 140 BOOK REVIEWS 142 5 SELECTED ABBREVIATIONS AFB Air Force Board ADP Automatic Data Processing AMO Air Ministry Order AMP Air Member for Personnel AMSO Air Member for Supply and Organisation AMWO Air Ministry Weekly Order ASMA Air Staff Management Aid ASU Aircraft Storage Unit BOC British Oxygen Company CSDE Central Servicing Development Establishment DLO Defence Logistics Organisation DTES Directorate of Tornado Engineering and Supply EDP Electronic Data Processing EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal ESD Equipment Supply Depot FAD Forward Ammunition Depot FAP Fly Away Pack HES Hardened Equipment Shelter IT Information Technology LITS Logistics IT Strategy ‘Maintex’ Maintenance Executive (Study) MPO Master Provision Office/Officer MRCA Multi-Role Combat Aircraft NAMMA NATO MRCA Management Agency POL Petrol, Oil & Lubricants RAFSADPS RAF Supply ADP System SCC Supply Control Centre SDR Strategic Defence Review SH Support Helicopter SSA Special Storage Areas STC Strike Command TCW Tactical Communications Wing TSW Tactical Supply Wing UED Universal Equipment Depot UKMAMS UK Mobile Air Movements Squadron USAS Unit Supply ADP System VDU Visual Display Unit 6 SUPPLY - AN AIR POWER ENABLER RAF MUSEUM, HENDON, 30 October 2004 WELCOME ADDRESS BY THE SOCIETY’S CHAIRMAN Air Vice-Marshal Nigel Baldwin CB CBE FRAeS Ladies and Gentlemen – good morning and welcome to our first seminar held on a Saturday. Please let me know what you think of the idea. We have a busy programme so let me just say my usual thank you to Dr Michael Fopp and his colleagues at the RAF Museum for allowing us once again to use their splendid facilities. Our Chairman today is Air Vice-Marshal Peter Markey. After the usual range of early appointments at places as diverse as Coltishall and Singapore, Peter became involved in the Anglo-French procurement projects – in his case the Puma and Gazelle at Marseilles. This seems to have marked him out as somebody to be involved in collaborative projects because he served subsequently at Carlisle, leading the Anglo-American project to manage the supply support for Phantom and Hercules. Like many Supply officers, Peter got to know Carlisle very well; indeed he did a tour there as Station Commander and OC 14 MU. He must have liked it because he now lives in Cumbria – thus a long journey for him today (which I much appreciate). RCDS and a short spell with ACDS (Logistics) during the first Gulf conflict followed and then, as an air commodore, he became Director of AMSO’s Implementation Team, charged with setting up Logistics Command and the development of RAF Wyton. He remained as Policy & Plans in the new command, under another of today’s speakers, Sir Michael Alcock. His last appointment, from 1995-97, was as Director General Support Management, this post carrying with it responsibility as Head of the RAF’s Supply Branch. On leaving the RAF, Peter became Director of Resources at the NATO Maintenance & Supply Agency in Luxembourg and, two years later, the first and only Brit to be General Manager, a post he held until earlier this summer. Ladies and Gentleman, there can be no better choice to lead our seminar today. Peter – over to you 7 INTRODUCTION BY SEMINAR CHAIRMAN Air Vice-Marshal Peter Markey During its decade and half the Royal Air Force Historical Society has presented several dozen seminars on the activities of the Service and its Annual General Meeting features a presentation from a learned speaker but, so far we believe, this is the first time the Society has held a seminar which seeks to track the history of a single Branch. A symposium held at Brampton in 1997 did look at logistics in the round and the proceedings are recorded in the Society’s Journal No 19 but today we shall focus on the Supply, formerly Equipment and before that the Stores, Branch which, as the oldest non-flying Branch, certainly merits our historical attention. Rather than simply being descriptive today, however, I suggest that our aim should be to trace the dynamics of the development of the Branch in an attempt to explain them and understand why the discipline of Supply is organised and operates as it does today. The Branch today is the product of its history and history is a continuum; if we are to make an informed guess at future trends, then we should try to recall, explain and understand past events. The idea for this seminar came from Gp Capt David Packman, who is here today, and we thank him very much. We have a galaxy of speakers to explore our theme, starting with Wg Cdr Larry O’Hara who will examine the period from the First World War to the 1930s. Larry is, incidentally, one of our three organisers today and I offer him our particular thanks for helping to put this seminar together. Larry, over to you. 8 THE EARLY DAYS Wg Cdr Larry O’Hara Larry O’Hara joined the Service in 1955 as a fighter controller, he left to seek his fortune in the gold fields of South Africa and then returned to join the Equipment Branch. He held a wide variety of appointments in the UK and Germany and concluded his service on the DS at Bracknell. He is a member of the Western Front Association and of the Centre for World War One Studies. The constitution of the RAF Equipment Branch was published as an AMO in 1930.1 Before that date there had been an RAF Stores Branch, the Royal Flying Corps Equipment Organisation and the Royal Engineers Balloon Depot. In this presentation I will trace the antecedents of the Supply Branch from the Balloon Section to the 1930s. We start in 1878 when £150 was included in the Army Estimates for the construction of observation balloons. This led to the establishment of a Balloon Depot which eventually found a permanent home at Farnborough. The exotic supplies needed by the balloon units such as coal gas, hydrogen cylinders and goldbeaters skin were procured, stored and issued by the Balloon Depot. The next step was the formation of the Royal Flying Corps on 13 April 1912. When the Committee for Imperial Defence recommended the establishment of the RFC it had intended that ‘The British Aeronautical Service should be regarded as one.’ The corps itself, which was intended to embrace all aspects of military and naval aviation, comprised a Military and a Naval Wing, and the Central Flying School at Upavon; there were, in addition to these, the Royal Aircraft Factory, which had evolved from the Balloon Depot, and the Aeronautical Inspection Department. Almost inevitably, the Admiralty wished to dissociate itself from the War Office and to this end it created its own breakaway air arm, the Royal Naval Air Service, which was established as a separate organisation on 1 July 1914 by order of the Admiralty – and without Parliamentary sanction. 9 Cpl Frank Kirby VC, who, having first become the RFC’s original quartermaster, would subsequently be influential in the creation and management of the wartime system for the provision of supplies within the air service. The RFC was represented at the War Office by the Directorate of Military Aeronautics under Brig-Gen Sir David Henderson. The directorate had three branches: MA1 – responsible for Policy, Administration and Personnel; MA2 – responsible for the supply and inspection of equipment, including the administration of the Royal Aircraft Factory and the Aeronautical Inspection Department; MA3 – the Contracts Branch, which, unusually, was under military control.
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