Fuel infrastructure under the Ten Year Rule

Britain continued investing in fuel infrastructure even under the Treasury and government's Ten Year Rule. The Navy wanted larger reserves than it received. An anecdote from an admiral's late-1920s private papers describes an ambition supposedly sufficient to fuel all Allied and Axis naval operations throughout the Second World War. The figure may never have been formally submitted to the government, and the family allowed consultation and personal notes while withholding permission to cite the papers. It therefore supplies a qualified recollection of planning ambition, with no verified stock total. The infrastructure actually obtained still helped shape British fleet operations.