Editing Avro Lancaster (section)

===Production===
[[File:Avro Lancaster aircraft under construction at the A V Roe & Co Ltd factory at Woodford in Cheshire, 1943. TR1384.jpg|thumb|upright|Lancasters under construction at Avro's factory at Woodford, Cheshire, 1943]]
Avro received an initial contract for 1,070 Lancasters.<ref name="goul garb 3"/> The majority of Lancasters manufactured during the war years were constructed by Avro at its factory at [[Chadderton]] near [[Oldham]], [[Lancashire]] and were test-flown from [[Woodford Aerodrome]] in [[Cheshire]]. As it was quickly recognised that Avro's capacity was exceeded by the wartime demand for the type, it was decided to form the ''Lancaster Aircraft Group'', which comprised a number of companies that undertook the type's manufacture, either performing primary assembly themselves or producing various subsections and components for the other participating manufacturers.<ref name="goul garb 3 4">Goulding and Garbett 1966, pp. 3–4.</ref> [[Wythenshawe Bus Garage]], built of [[reinforced concrete]] during 1939–42 and designed by the Manchester [[City Architect]], [[G. Noel Hill]], was immediately taken over by the [[Ministry of Aircraft Production]] and Avro used it in its Lancaster aircraft production.<ref name="wythenshawe-bus-garage">{{cite web| url= https://manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk/buildings/wythenshawe-bus-garage-manchester | title=Wythenshawe Bus Garage Manchester | work=A Biographical Dictionary of the Architects of Greater Manchester, 1800–1940 | first=Neil | last=Darlington | publisher=[[The Victorian Society]] | date=2024 | accessdate=30 December 2024 }}</ref>

In addition to Avro, further Lancasters were constructed by [[Metropolitan-Vickers]] (1,080, also tested at Woodford) and [[Armstrong Whitworth]]. They were also produced at the [[Austin Motor Company]] works in [[Longbridge]], [[Birmingham]], later in the Second World War and post-war by [[Vickers-Armstrongs]] at [[Chester]] as well as at the Vickers Armstrong factory, Castle Bromwich, Birmingham. [[Belfast]]-based aircraft firm [[Short Brothers]] had also received an order for 200 Lancaster B.Is, but this was cancelled before any aircraft had been completed.<ref name="goul garb 4">Goulding and Garbett 1966, p. 4.</ref><ref name = "robertson1964 7981">Robertson 1964, pp. 79–81.</ref>

The Lancaster was also produced overseas. During early 1942, it was decided that the bomber should be produced in Canada, where it was manufactured by [[Victory Aircraft]] in [[Malton, Ontario]].<ref name="goul garb 5"/> Of later variants, only the Canadian-built ''Lancaster B X'' was produced in significant numbers. A total of 430 of this type were built, earlier examples differing little from their British-built predecessors, except for using [[Packard]]-built [[Rolls-Royce Merlin|Merlin]] engines and American-style instruments and electrics.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} In August 1942, a British-built Lancaster B.I was dispatched to Canada as a pattern aircraft, becoming the first of the type to conduct a [[transatlantic crossing]].<ref name="goul garb 5" /> The first Lancaster produced in Canada was named the "Ruhr Express".{{NoteTag|The "Ruhr Express" the subject of a Canadian National Film Board production ''Target Berlin'' for the [[Canada Carries On]] series, filmed in part over Berlin by NFB cameraman [[Grant McLean (film producer)|Grant McLean]].{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}}}{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} The first batch of Canadian Lancasters delivered to England suffered from faulty ailerons; this error was subsequently traced to the use of unskilled labour.<ref name="Wings on my Sleeve p80">Brown 2016, p. 80.</ref> By the end of the conflict, over 10,000 Canadians were employed on the production line, which was producing one Lancaster each day.<ref name = "robertson1964 81">Robertson 1964, p. 81.</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+Production by factory
!Manufacturer
!Location
!Number produced
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Avro|A. V. Roe]]
|[[Woodford, Greater Manchester|Woodford]]
| rowspan="2" |2,978
|-
|[[Chadderton]]
|-
|[[Yeadon, West Yorkshire|Yeadon]]
|695
|-
|[[Armstrong Whitworth]]
|[[Whitley, Coventry|Whitley]]
|1,329
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Austin Motors]]
|[[Longbridge]]
| rowspan="2" |330
|-
|[[Marston Green]]
|-
|[[Metropolitan-Vickers]]
|[[Trafford Park]]
|1,080
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Vickers-Armstrongs]]
|[[Castle Bromwich]]
|300
|-
|[[Chester]]
|235
|-
|[[Victory Aircraft]]
|[[Malton, Ontario|Malton]] (Canada)
|430
|}