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Message: <blockquote data-quote="alertken" data-source="post: 419256" data-attributes="member: 393">R.Higham,Speedbird,Tauris,2014,P.85; R.Payne,Stuck on the Drawing Board,Tempus,2004,P.33; and Me. I have also seen L-649 and L-849 as for this.Brabazon Type III had finally been made Definitive 4/46 with Avro 693 (Clyde, 11/46: Avon), but that had to be chopped 7/47 to admit (to be) Vulcan. BOAC's Medium Range Empire was out to Tender 12/46, to which Bristol intended to bid both indigenous T.175 (though alert to BOAC/BSAAC/MoS assertions of overload with parallel work on Centaurus/, then maybe Proteus/T.167 Brabazon), and Lockheed Project X: 5 new L-749 to be re-engined Centaurus by Bristol, then Bristol Project Y to licence-build it, for territories yet to be defined, Commonwealth and maybe more. MCA+BOAC put that to Cabinet, for FOREX sanction, 22/4/47: already much of US 7/46 Reconstruction Loan had gone up in Virginia baccy smoke; Minister of Housing wanted $-timber to rehouse the bombed...and...and...we all wanted $. Cabinet said No. Centaurus/T.175 was chosen 14/7/47 (12/50, all T.175 Britannia: Proteus).Theseus turboprop had run 18/7/45; HP Hermes V would fly with it 23/8/49 and we now know it was even more canine than early Proteus...but we did not know that, then, and Lockheed would have kicked Bristol to fix it, for a US/UK  turboprop Connie, c.1950. This was a profound missed opportunity.It's no consolation that France did the same. Sud Avn, struggling to resurrect Armagnac, reached agreement in principle with Douglas to licence DC-6. That was killed, 2/48, in the politics of Red Unions in Nationalised Industries. TAI and UAT took DC-6, AF L-749, from California. (H.Chapman,State Capitalism & Working Class Radicalism in the French A/c Industry,U.Cal.P,1991,P282).</blockquote>

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