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  1. marathag

    WI: Ford Motor Company buys 'Austin Rover Group' in 1986 - 1987?

    I'm sure it would be as well handled as OTL Jaguar :'(
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    When was the earliest plausible timeframe for electric vehicles to attain relatively widespread use in a major country?

    In the USA, many houses had only 30A, 120vac single service at the start of electrication to the 1950s. From that point, 60A with 120/240V
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    Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    Vs OTLs Japan Wank and Brit Screw, with one side rolling natural 20s, and the other doing ones for the entire first 6 months of the war, between shots of Lead Paint Anyone doing a TL with OTL events would be flamed into oblivion. 'What, won't dig trenches as that would upset the local Golf...
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    Possible Alternate Jet engine pre-WWII

    1946 test of the Marquardt XRJ-30-MA Ramjets Not so good when only one side lights. Very inefficient way of burning fuel to go a little faster
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    AHC: Save a notorious flop

    a taste
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    AHC: Save a notorious flop

    Watch _Street Fighter_ just to watch Raul Julia ham it up
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    Germany goes East in 1914 - French Munitions Production?

    Hmm. Drops in 1913 Dropping before the War Also dropping before the War So not helpful for France losing NE France But look at Germany France was still digging more Coal than Germany It's like workers were no longer working, and sent off to a battlefield or something
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    More widespread Internal weapons bay in the post war era

    internal bays allow higher dash speeds and more economical cruising, from low drag. Is it worth the reduction in warload? The F-105 had an internal bay, that nearly always had a fueltank in it, and carried more stores externally. The B-58 is another way, with the weapons and fuel in the...
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    Could the USSR work well enought on its orthodox form to be a pleasant place in modern day?

    Without the spending to support themselves(and their worldwide clients) in the Cold War, the USSR could have had a consumer based economy to keep the people happier. The US could afford to do both Guns and Butter, with the top Western economies buying US Bonds to support that kind of deficit...
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    Germany goes East in 1914 - French Munitions Production?

    everyone had shell shortages, no-one imagining how many shells and cartridges were to be needed for continued high intensity modern combat 2nd, near all of the French Industrial Military complex was around Paris and SE France. Losing NE France was bad for iron and coal production, but...
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    AHC/WI: Make South Vietnam win the Vietnam War with a POD after 1968

    Dropping 20 tons of bombs on 'suspected truck park' did little of military value, and blew up villages who wanted nothing to do with either side. 1972 Linebacker II targeting was far, far different, no bombing grid squares of jungle, but actual military targets that had been off limits since 1964
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    AHC: Save a notorious flop

    Which is still better
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    When was the earliest plausible timeframe for electric vehicles to attain relatively widespread use in a major country?

    By 1903, ICE poised for takeover, with in the USA, Olds made 4000, Cadillac (original Henry Ford company, till.kicked out) 2497, and Henry's new FoMoCo, 1708 vehicles The previous year, Locomobile made 2750 Steam cars, 1903 they were retooling for ICE as a replacement There were around 100...
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    Have Space 1999 be more successful

    And such as it was, was internally consistent with their set technology. Even if they destroyed a hundred Dodge Chargers to show it on the small screen
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    When was the earliest plausible timeframe for electric vehicles to attain relatively widespread use in a major country?

    Chemistry and manufacturing is 40 years out for Ni-Cad batteries, Brass Car era is stuck with heavy Lead Acid and Nickel-Iron, and shunts and rheostats for speed control. Power Tubes still in the future
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    No Gas crisis, how big cars get?

    got tired of checking for fan trouble and bent pushrods?
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    No Gas crisis, how big cars get?

    Engines were going to be gutted for Emission air pollution reasons, the CAFE fuel economy would be after the crisis The 1970 Clean Air Act, requiring a 90 percent reduction in emissions of hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxide (NOx) from new automobiles by 1975
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    No Gas crisis, how big cars get?

    I didn't own one, but a friend did. They were just goofy, with the steel rope drive shaft, transaxle(2 speed) in the rear, and a 389 V-8 split the wrong way that 'Slant- Four' did not idle smoothly I though that the Chevy air-cooled boxer in the front would had been awesome, or the Buick 215 in...
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    AHC: State-owned enterprises more widely accepted in USA

    Go back and have Ike look into the General Dynamics as being too wide ranging of a conglomerate, and having Convair alone would be better for their bomber and ICBM projects. General Dynamics had started out as Electric Boat, and they bought Canadair from the Canadian Government, and changed...
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    'Short .30' cartridges became mainstream in 1930s?

    Not a round of the warehoused 30-06 was ever fired thru the M1 in combat, it was all new manufactured ammunition. Much of it was pawned off on the Navy, but there was enough after the War to feed surplus ammo sales thru the 1970s.
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