Avro Tudor 8/9 and Avro Ashton

Ministers in 1944/5 placed great hopes on commercial use of the Lincoln wing. The Kangaroo Team (to be A.India/BOAC/QF/SAA/TEAL) was to fly 30 generic Tudors ordered December,1944; RAAF was to have one locally built. Avro Canada C-102 Jetliner was both commercial and HSAL’s insurance for weird wings being schemed (to be bid by Avro & AWA as Medium Bombers). There was no specific intent to exploit the engine test bed 8/Ashton variants. It all went so wrong, for your choice from: pressurisation, which UK took forever to grasp; Avro putting priority on (to be) Vulcan and Brabazon IV Express schemes (lost to Comet 1); BOAC seeing L-049 as unbeatable; Bristol spoiling, by extolling Centaurus/Theseus/Proteus as Connie beaters if we would just wait awhile.