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- British_Purchasing_Commission abstract "The British Purchasing Commission was a United Kingdom organization of the Second World War.Also known at some time as the \"Anglo-French Purchasing Board\", it was based in New York City, where it arranged the production and purchase of armaments from North American manufacturers. After the 1940 French Surrender it became the 'British Purchasing Commission'. The Commission was also responsible for taking over orders that had originally been placed by France, Belgium, and later by Norway, after those country's capitulation.The Board was able to arrange purchases in spite of the Neutrality Acts via \"Cash and Carry\", paying for the materiel with Britain's Gold Reserves.The Board had been established before the war buying aircraft such as the Lockheed Super Electra.Facing an aeroplane shortage during the early stages of World War II, in January 1940, the British government established the British Direct Purchase Commission to purchase US planes that would help supplement domestic plane production. By December 1940 British cash orders for aircraft had exceeded $1,200,000,000 with deliveries of 300-350 per month and were expected to reach 500 per month by \"early in 1941\"The requests by the Board to US manufacturers stimulated production and design including the development of what would become the North American P-51 Mustang, which was designed for the Commission.After the establishment of Lend-Lease, aircraft and other weapons could be supplied direct to the UK.".
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- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageRevisionID "706521236".
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Airplane.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Armistice_of_22_June_1940.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Arthur_Blaikie_Purvis.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Bell_P-39_Airacobra.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Brewster_F2A_Buffalo.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Brewster_SB2A_Buccaneer.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink British_military_aircraft_designation_systems.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Cash_and_carry_(World_War_II).
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_Kingdom_defence_procurement.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_Kingdom–United_States_relations.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Clive_Baillieu,_1st_Baron_Baillieu.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Consolidated_B-24_Liberator.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Consolidated_PBY_Catalina.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Curtiss_P-36_Hawk.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Curtiss_P-40_Warhawk.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Curtiss_SBC_Helldiver.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Curtiss_XP-46.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Douglas_A-20_Havoc.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Douglas_DC-2.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Fleet_Air_Arm.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink French_Naval_Aviation.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Gold_reserve.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Grumman_F4F_Wildcat.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Iceland.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Intruder_(air_combat).
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Lend-Lease.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Little_Norway.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Lockheed_Hudson.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Lockheed_Model_14_Super_Electra.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Lockheed_P-38_Lightning.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Lockheed_Ventura.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Martin_Maryland.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Mary_Norton_(author).
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Materiel.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Neutrality_Acts_of_1930s.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink New_York_City.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Night_fighter.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink North_American_P-51_Mustang.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink North_American_T-6_Texan.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Northrop_A-17.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Northrop_N-3PB.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Operation_Weserübung.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Navy.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink United_Kingdom.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Vought_SB2U_Vindicator.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Vultee_A-31_Vengeance.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Vultee_P-66_Vanguard.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink Wilfred_Hill-Wood.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLinkText "Anglo-French Purchasing Board".
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLinkText "British Purchasing Commission".
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLinkText "procurement of new aircraft types".
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLinkText "purchased directly".
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageWikiLinkText "purchasing commission".
- British_Purchasing_Commission wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- British_Purchasing_Commission subject Category:United_Kingdom_defence_procurement.
- British_Purchasing_Commission subject Category:United_Kingdom–United_States_relations.
- British_Purchasing_Commission hypernym Organization.
- British_Purchasing_Commission type Organisation.
- British_Purchasing_Commission comment "The British Purchasing Commission was a United Kingdom organization of the Second World War.Also known at some time as the \"Anglo-French Purchasing Board\", it was based in New York City, where it arranged the production and purchase of armaments from North American manufacturers. After the 1940 French Surrender it became the 'British Purchasing Commission'.".
- British_Purchasing_Commission label "British Purchasing Commission".
- British_Purchasing_Commission sameAs Q4970642.
- British_Purchasing_Commission sameAs m.02rb09p.
- British_Purchasing_Commission sameAs Q4970642.
- British_Purchasing_Commission wasDerivedFrom British_Purchasing_Commission?oldid=706521236.
- British_Purchasing_Commission isPrimaryTopicOf British_Purchasing_Commission.