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Old 3rd Jul 2011, 12:54
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Nene/Derwent to USSR: see my #166.

UK also bartered various aeroplanes, good and not so, for Peron-Fascist Argentina's beef. We were hungry and cold in 1946/47, so could not be picky about customers. Massey-Ferguson tractors, Morris Minors, Cossor/EKCO brown goods were not yet ready to burst on the world export scene. Great hopes were placed on Aero, especially turbines, to earn the $ we needed to survive. See the Brabazon Committee suite of civil Types.

For me, the 1946/47 turbine blunder was not this, but was Cabinet's 7/47 denial of a modest $ commitment to permit Bristol to licence-build L-849 Constellation, initially with Centaurus, then Theseus turboprop.
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