Planning in Wartime. Aircraft production in Britain, Germany and the USA
Details:
- Author(s) Cairncross, Alec K
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1991
- Pages 197pp; illus
- Publisher Macmillan with St Antony's College
- Place Published Basingstoke
Topics:
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
- Name Comparative international studies
- Name Government procurement
Countries:
- Germany
- United States
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
Groups:
Notes:
A personal account of the work of the Ministry of Aircraft Production where the writer worked in a senior planning capacity for four years from Dec 1941. Draws especially on his personal diary. Intended as a supplement to Ely Devons, 'Planning in practice. Essays in aircraft planning in wartime', 1950. The significantly shorter sections on Germany and the USA are based on published works. Structured in three parts, viz: 1] 'Great Britain' - 'Planning and coordination' / 'Planning in MAP' / 'Organisation' / 'The Engine Programme' / 'Propeller planning'; 2 'Germany'; 'United States'