I said;
AMSO was castigated by a coruscating report by MoD’s EAC (Equipment Accounting Centre, Liverpool) for all of this in about 1991 (I’ll check the precise date if you like).
Apologies. The report was dated February 1989, which merely pushes back AMSO's known incompetence! It was Jan/Feb 1991 when EAC sought our advice on how to prevent the waste of the £hundreds of millions which AMSO was insisting on, as they noticed we'd taken successful action and kept the C130, VC10, Jetstream, Nimrod and Dominie fleets flying, when AMSO 's actions were about to ground them. It was that date which stuck in my addled memory.