Brabazon's Committee chose the Interim Wellington Transport, funded 25/11/44, as $-sparing means of opening Continental routes asap. First flight was 22/6/45, inaugural with new BEAC, 1/9/46. But...Dakota. No-one foresaw in 1944 that Surplus would be offered at $50,000 (then £12,000) as is where is, and that where would be, well, everywhere. The Settlement of Lend/Lease included meeting requests by RAF and the Ministry of Civil Aviation, "owner" of {to be} BEAC for as is where is Daks within the 15/7/46 US Loan: 672 (72/civil, 600/RAF).
Cheap Daks constrained sales of Vikings to non-open-market Users (barter, Aid). BEA flew their Pionairs, latterly as Leopard freighters, long after unloading all Vikings. Valetta/Varsity were ordered simply to sustain Weybridge until Valiant entered production (Varsity was shifted into ex-BOAC sheds at Hurn).