"Brett" wrote in message
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"Cub Driver" wrote:



The Brabazon committee proposed a series of different civil aircraft
types that would be needed in a post war world. One of them became the
Comet (high speed mail carrier), another became the Airspeed Ambassador
(the Brabazon IIA, a DC-3 replacement) and one became the Vickers
Viscount (the Brabazon IIB)..... The committee I believe specified the
target market that may or may not have ever existed in the post war
world.



The Type III , for Empire and Commonwealth routes was of
course the Bristol Brittania

The Brabazon committee was put together in 1943 because it was
realised that the wartime agreement with the USA they transport
aircraft would be supplied from US manufacturing while Britain
concentrated on bomber and fighter production would leave
UK manufacturers at a disadvantage in the post war era.

Keith