Don't order 2 Supermarine B.12/36 prototypes so that the firm's design department can devote more resources to its other projects including improving the Spitfire.
Transfer production of the Walrus to Saunders Roe sooner. This will allow Supermarine to concentrate on Spitfires.
To create more space at Saunders Roe:
Another 42 Sunderlands should be ordered between 1936 and 1939, starting with 22 in March 1936. This includes 32 ordered instead of the 11 Saro A.33s and 21 Saro Lerwicks.
Short Brothers should be able to deliver the extra aircraft between April 1938 and October 1939. However, if they can't then the extra aircraft should be ordered from Blackburn or Short & Harland. That would help both companies set up their Sunderland production lines several years earlier.
It would also help if the RCAF ordered an eventual total of 40 Sunderlands from Short Brothers, Short & Harland or Blackburn instead of the 40 Supermarine Stranraers that were built by Canadian Vickers.
Transfer production of the Walrus to Saunders Roe sooner. This will allow Supermarine to concentrate on Spitfires.
To create more space at Saunders Roe:
- Don't order 11 A.33 flying boats. These were ordered at the same time as the first 11 production Sunderlands. This order was cancelled after the prototype was written off in an accident.
- Don't order the 21 Lerwick flying boats.
Another 42 Sunderlands should be ordered between 1936 and 1939, starting with 22 in March 1936. This includes 32 ordered instead of the 11 Saro A.33s and 21 Saro Lerwicks.
Short Brothers should be able to deliver the extra aircraft between April 1938 and October 1939. However, if they can't then the extra aircraft should be ordered from Blackburn or Short & Harland. That would help both companies set up their Sunderland production lines several years earlier.
It would also help if the RCAF ordered an eventual total of 40 Sunderlands from Short Brothers, Short & Harland or Blackburn instead of the 40 Supermarine Stranraers that were built by Canadian Vickers.