TY  - BOOK
AU  - POWELL Matthew Lee
TI  - Royalties, patents and sub-contracting: the curious case of the Hawker Hart
PY  - 2021///
KW  - AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY
KW  - HAWKER HART
KW  - ROYAL AIR FORCE
KW  - INTER-WAR PERIOD
N2  - Aircraft procurement by the Air Ministry in the inter-war period was beset by various problems, with numerous solutions proposed in an attempt to resolve them. One such potential solution was the proposal to sub-contract the production to other aircraft manufacturers within the Air Ministry's ring of firms who were allocated firm orders. This action by the Air Ministry, it was believed, would spread the technical knowledge of aircraft production to a wider base that could be built upon in a time of national emergency or war. This approach was also a way of 'artificially' keeping firms alive where they had been unsuccessful in being awarded contracts. Such a scheme would, from the industry's perspective, however, lead to less orders for firms successful in aircraft design and allow the potential sharing of industry secrets amongst direct competitors
UR  - https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/publications/royalties-patents-and-sub-contracting-the-curious-case-of-the-haw
ER  -