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  1. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    These days are the first two decades of the 21st Century, wielding techniques and more importantly the grades of metal that are being wielded have had a long time to mature since the period ending 1940 your thread claimed to be covering.
  2. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    Not just ships but also tanks. Only Britain, Italy and Japan made fully or mainly riveted tanks, regarding post 1940 belligerents Countries no longer build riveted warships or any large ships these days.
  3. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...tool in 1914&f=false The last paragraph in page 14 mentioned American automatic machine tool in British bicycle industry. What you said about Japan was extremely bullshit, and no longer true by 1970s. Japan was the main driver of the development of consumer electronics, not the outdated...
  4. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...profit margins relating thereto. Most businesses would only pay a premium for superior quality. I daresay the quality of the German machine tools improved over time to be competitive, but the most competitive quality of the German machine tools was lower price. Think Japan in the 1970s...
  5. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    You can export to Europe and to lesser extent, Empire, Japan and even Soviet. Why not trying to capture market share from Germany? Besides, government can raise domestic demand by encouraging or forcing industries to modernize and retool, not just armament industries but also civilian industries...
  6. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...newcomers cannot grow into large firms to create competitive advantage, as small firms could not carry out large-scale investments and R&D. Japan since 1980s had smaller population base than the US but still surpass the US in various high-tech sectors, partly thanks to protectionism. I...
  7. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...data suggests this could not be supported at the time: $4,320 New Zealand $4,299 Australia $4,096 United States $3,134 Germany $1,135 Japan Those economies effective at producing food and with unfettered access to markets continued to do extremely well economically up until the...
  8. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...while it very much is! How the hell can you produce anything if you don't have the material for it? With the same logic, you could argue that Japan had better industrial capacity because they produced better things and that all their problems can be dismissed by their lack of resource. It's a...
  9. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...one place or by one person. The cavity magnetron had the same situation, the first ones were actually invented in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Japan long before it was made in Britain and the British model needed to be redesigned and improved on by the Americans starting in 1940 to make it a...
  10. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    This topic is about industry. Soviet union had many excellent weapons, but their industrial techniques and capability was a decade behind developed capitalist countries in Weatern Europe, US and Japan
  11. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    Sources of supply are only good if you can get at them. Though if you are arguing that Germany should have stuck to peace, which it was really good at, rather than war at which...well it basically sucks judging by results, then I am with you. The British developed an economy that could...
  12. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...none of British electrical firms were as large as these three. The link also mention that AEG was the fourth largest firm. Germany did not have resource rich colonies, their homeland lacks some critical material like rubber or oil. They had to import them. Look at Japan today. Basically the...
  13. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...industry. During 1970s-1980s, Soviet had plenty of excellent weapons. But their industrial practices and technology was a decade behind US, Japan and Western Europe. Similar case for Britain and Germany 1900-1940, but what I mentioned below was more about 1910-1914. British factories were...
  14. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...of modernizing then you could not improve your technological frontier to raise your potential output. And many British industries in 1970s-80s died due to failure to modernize. For example, shipbuilding. Even today japan and some european countries still have sizeable commercial shipbuilding.
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