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===Orders and production=== * Two prototypes were ordered against specification P.13/36 and were built by Avro at Ringway. * Production contract for 200 Manchesters placed with Avro to be built at Chadderton, contract changed to Lancaster I production after 157 had been built, delivered between August 1940 and November 1941. * Production contract for 150 Manchesters placed with Fairey to be built at Ringway, order cancelled. * Production contract for 200 Manchesters placed with Metropolitan-Vickers at Trafford Park, contract changed to Lancaster I production after 43 had been built, delivered between March 1941 and March 1942. The first 12 aircraft being built on the Trafford Park production line were destroyed in a German air raid on 23 December 1940, not being completed they are not included in the total aircraft built. * Production contract for 150 Manchesters placed with Armstrong-Whitworth, order cancelled. In total two prototypes and 200 production aircraft were built before the production lines changed to building the four-engine Lancaster.
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