... and four years later ...
Who would have thought that four years after that memory-strings-tugging film, the dreaded Mr. Sandys would storm all over RAF procurement, to be followed by a monumental series of ministerial/industrial interference (in the engineering sense) ?
B U T ...
What if the Swift had been selected "from the drawing board"? Or the Sperrin? Was the Javelin a "better" choice than the DH110? How to choose between the Victor and Vulcan at that stage?
Agreed, the industry needed to be "sorted out" (it wouldn't sort itself out because too many high-personality knights were involved, of course), but I do remember being told how offended people at Radlett were when a visiting USAF officer remarked about Victor final assembly "Sure it's a fine airplane, but why d'ja have to build it in a hobbies shop?".
But in 1953, we all thought we could do it all, and the P A I N was still to come. Eheu fugaces !