Good thought. Monarch was certainly involved in leasing as part of the lend lease program, which started in 1941. I've always wanted to know if there was a program in place when Ferranti bought my 1940 Sundstrand lathe from Monarch, or if the early part of WWII was financed directly by GB without US help.
Dave
US/UK 'Lend Lease' was a political critter with near-zero relationship to business leasing, but governments were often involved in what may have been Moore's role.
Suppose a firm won a contract - gov or Big Corp - for machine work that required experienced staff and machine-tools that had five and more year depreciation lives, but .. the contract was KNOWN to have to go back out for bid every six months, year, three years...
What used to be cold-war 'Beltway Bandit' (DC and Boston) common was that the same Managers, Scientists, Engineers. Technical Staff etc. that worked on such a project for Company A had their resumes on file with all the other 'usual suspects' among routine bidders. Indeed, the others could not qualify as a bidder without experienced staff
and required equipment.
WHEN the incumbent lost the bid, it was often the same folks on the same equipment that left one payroll Friday, showed up on the new payroll Monday, did much the same work with a new sign over the entrance.
Both Gummint and Big Corp were happy with that. There had been an (apparent) award to lowest qualified bidder each go, and they had the right stuff to not impair the delivery.
Next go, it might reverse.
Made sense to short-term lease a building, office furniture, test gear, production machinery rather than own it, because a loser might NOT get back in for many years, or not at all.
Whole industries grew up to support electronics test gear leasing alone. Then Technical Staff.
Moore MAY have been a player in leasing - and maintaining - machine-tools in a similar manner.
There would have been little point in involving Monarch Machine Tool in tracking who was on base at any given point in the cycle.
Bill
