Differences between American and British heavy bombers
I noticed that the cockpits of American aircraft like the B17 resemble a modern airliner cockpit whereas the British aircraft appear to be from a different evolutionary tree. (I've just been watching a walk through of a Halifax on YouTube, which had one position, instruments scattered seemingly randomly, a control pedestal that looks lie it came off a ship ... and a staircase! It looks like a carryover from Upstairs Downstairs
Why was that? and when did British aircraft design 'mature' into what we're used to today