Hi all
There may well be a book or two on this, but if there is then I don't have them..
Is there a resource anywhere which details the various different contractors involved in producing the V1..? I presume that Fieseler was the prime contractor, I believe the pulse motors were made by Argus. The warheads, I presume, would have been built elsewhere and supplied complete, as were the wings, I think. I'm not looking for details of how many factories supplied every single part (ie gyro, electrical system, etc), just the main component airframe parts.
The main reason for the question is I see a lot of original V1 pictures where there is evidence of pre-painted or 'non-matching finish' components - so presumably the V1 was subject to the same type of distributed manufacturing as other late-war Luftwaffe aircraft - I'm just trying to get a rough idea of how many differing component parts would have been bolted together during final assembly.
Hope that makes sense. Thanks in advance..