Maintaining aircraft manufacturing through government purchases: Australia and Canada from the end of the Second World War until the 1970s
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Published:2022-03-23
Issue:3
Volume:43
Page:414-439
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ISSN:0022-5266
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Container-title:The Journal of Transport History
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language:en
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Short-container-title:The Journal of Transport History
Affiliation:
1. Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Abstract
In this article, a comparison is provided of the alternative Australian and Canadian government procurement policies for military aircraft in the post-Second World War period. Procurement was used by both governments to maintain manufacturing capacity that was established in the Second World War. By undertaking this analysis, the differing characteristics of the two policies are highlighted. In both cases procurement policies promoted the maintenance of aircraft manufacturing industries, however, the resulting industries were quite different in nature, a result partly of the differing natures of the policies, and different to some degree to the results of the policy in other Western countries.
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Subject
Transportation,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),History,Geography, Planning and Development
Reference103 articles.
1. Canada, Directorate of History and Heritage, PARC, RCAF file 840-108, vol. 8, Minutes of Air Council Meeting 1946/2, 29 January 1946 (Ottawa: DHH).