weapon cost

[drgslyr]

Anyone know of any sites or reference material listing the amount of money it cost each nation to manufacture individual weapon systems? In other words, how much did it cost its respective nation to build each Tiger tank, Sherman tank, Spitfire, etc., etc., etc.

[morse1001]

Originally Posted by drgslyr

Anyone know of any sites or reference material listing the amount of money it cost each nation to manufacture individual weapon systems? In other words, how much did it cost its respective nation to build each Tiger tank, Sherman tank, Spitfire, etc., etc., etc.

I do not think that you will find one site with all the info you require. Also, the cost varied from model to model and from year to year.

[Gerry Chester]

Hi,

A war-bond effort in 1940 to raise ₤5,000 units to buy Spitfires, when compared with the following year's effort to raise ₤20,000 (maybe ₤30,000 I cannot recall) to buy a tank seems to be a paltry amount.

Cheers, Gerry

[lancesergeant]

Can you imagine if they tried the same thing now days. Thirty million for a plane, what jumbo,no, just a fighter.

[spidge]

As a lad in the late 50's and early 60's, mum used to give me one shilling on Saturday to go to the local picture theatre (cinema).

9 pence for admission and threepence to spend. With the threepence I could buy 24 aniseed balls.

The Pictures nowadays are $12 (6 pound) and the Aniseed balls are a shilling (10 cents) each.

All parity really!

The movies were better then and the Aniseed balls are now smaller!

[Gerry Chester]

Hey Spidge you're a spring chicken. In the 30's the cost of the Saturday matinee at the Royal Cinema in Wallasey was 3d - and we got either an orange or apple on the way out! The Mars Bar was just a penny until the Milky Way came out when the price went up to 2d - what an outcry.

With three pennies in our pockets it was off to the fish and chip shop - and we still had a penny left!

Still that was then - now is now.

Cheers, Gerry

[spidge]

Originally Posted by Gerry Chester

Hey Spidge you're a spring chicken. In the 30's the cost of the Saturday matinee at the Royal Cinema in Wallasey was 3d - and we got either an orange or apple on the way out! The Mars Bar was just a penny until the Milky Way came out when the price went up to 2d - what an outcry.

With three pennies in our pockets it was off to the fish and chip shop - and we still had a penny left!

Still that was then - now is now.

Cheers, Gerry

Yes my mother is 88 and she still tells me that a loaf of bread was a penny in the 20's.

A lot of changes occur in a small amount of time.

I am 30 years younger than you however look what happened in the 30 years from 1914.

[morse1001]

The Mars Bar was just a penny

The London Stock market used a very simple imflation test.

The Mars bar has remained the same size and shape throughout its life. Therefore they would work out how may mars bars could be bought for - lets say £2 in 1920 and how many could be bought in 1975. The result gave the inflation factor!

[morse1001]

Originally Posted by Gerry Chester

Hey Spidge you're a spring chicken. In the 30's the cost of the Saturday matinee at the Royal Cinema in Wallasey was 3d - and we got either an orange or apple on the way out! The Mars Bar was just a penny until the Milky Way came out when the price went up to 2d - what an outcry.

With three pennies in our pockets it was off to the fish and chip shop - and we still had a penny left!

Still that was then - now is now.

Cheers, Gerry

Going to junior club in Wishaw in the sixties was a shilling! plus the odd occassional block of "tobacco" I think that where my lifelong aversion to smoking must have started!

[morse1001]

Here are some of the coins mentioned

Top row, left hand side Half crown down to silver threepenny. includes a grout as well

Bottom rorw left hand side starts with a Penny and works down to a half - farthling!

These coin came from last weeks wages!