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I do not know much at all about the intricacies of British military contracting, but for the US stuff... NEVER trust government contract or production documentation 100 percent. Maybe not even 50 percent. And I mean the primary source documentation! I do not mean some sort of conspiracy cover up nonsense (although with sensitive stuff like crypto, one has to wonder), but just the super chaotic nature of the era. During the war, contracts were very often hastily written, sometimes after the production started, were often extremely vague. Contracts were routinely breached (but in a good way, but sometimes not) when some general screamed for more gizmos made yesterday. Contracts were also routinely extended and supplemented, so historians have to be careful if they have the entire history of a contract, or just a piece. They also need to know all the intricacies of the system, knowing the difference of a contract and an order, and how the accounting and serializing works, and then realizing that production was often faster than the paper trail it made. Lots of things that are not supposed to exist because of a cancelled project or contract did see the light of day, and likewise, lots of things that supposedly were made simply vanished. And then there are plain old typos. Many more than you might expect! I am not trying to beat you up or anything, just issuing a warning. I have been a World War 2 era military radio and radar collector for some 25 or so years (and now getting out of it - trade old radar stuff for old computers? Ha!), and have seen just how fucked up it really was. Never trust the numbers! -- Will