Getting back to the Winston Bray book, what does he have to say on some of the underlying BOAC themes.....why didn't BOAC takeover the RAF Skymasters?....why Lancastrians not Yorks?........not being able to buy enough Constellations (was the Aer Linte Constellation purchase a 'back-door job' from the beginning?)....why was BOAC negative about the VC-7/V-1000? ...does he mention the unions at heathrow?
(Pre-war Imperial HAD responded to the arrival of the DC-2/DC-3 by ordering aluminium monoplanes off the drawing-board from Short's but made the strategic error of choosing flying-boats.... the inadequate DH Albatross and underpowered AW Ensign arrived too late to restore Imperial's fortunes. The pre-war BA had no qualms about buying American but were a smaller operation than Imperial.)