AP1348 applies to which aircraft?

Anne
Having looked into it a bit more, you would be correct that, as each new aircraft type came in to service, a new AP number was issued in the 20’s. I have noticed this with administrative type AP’s

An Air Ministry order, A.819/30, issued in 1930 laid out the three-volume scheme for technical publications relating to aeroplanes and aero-engines.

Air Ministry order, A.201/34, issued in 1934, set a standard system of numbering each of the constituent parts of the three volumes issued under this earlier order. The AP number assigned to a new aeroplane or aero-engine was promulgated by an Air Ministry Order introducing the type, the suffixes which were subsequently added to identify publications dealing with later marks of the type were also published in the Air Ministry Orders.

A.M.O. A.113/35 introduced to the Service the three volume scheme for technical air publications.

Ross is correct, AP1343 is the Appendix A for the Bulldog. In the 1920s it was quite common for the Spares Schedules and the Appendix A (basically the Vol.3 Pt.2) to have a different AP number to the descriptive handbook. So why the earlier AP number? The clue is in the title. It’s the Appendix A for the Bulldog and not the Bulldog II or IIA as in AP1393.

Anne

Ross
Thank you for your quick reply, this is the reference and am referring to.

I however think it is incorrect, as I believe that Bristol Bulldog aircraft are covered by the AP1393 series of publications.

I am just trying to find information to independently determine the case either way.

Bristol Bulldog according to The National Archives

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C3306098

Regards
Ross