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

    Not really. In 1914 A-H had the fourth most powerful army in the world and was the fourth largest manufacturer of machine tools. It was just that Germany ignored its only significant ally before the war and then abandoned A-H to the Russians and Serbs when it tried to decapitate France at the...
  2. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    This is one of the Great Myths of the Great War, Germany would not have fought nearly so well alone, not merely would they have been facing more Russians but they would not have been able to realise supplies from Austria-Hungary without paying for them nor had the opportunity to loot Romania...
  3. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    I mean BE+France vs US+Germany+Japan naval war scenario I mean Germany faced the same situation but in land warfare, facing a coalition of 3 and eventually 4 of 5 biggest world powers, while their allies were much weaker and much less useful, which means that Germany had to do the majority of...
  4. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...accrue from fighting on major land fronts. Also, for the WWII timeframe, Britain would need to divert resources in a similar manner to counter Japan. No reason to believe they would do so ITTL if they didn't in OTL. More than made up for by the ability to focus on production of submarines...
  5. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...Germany's alleged advantages, who won? Your reply will be the UK but only because it had the British Empire, France, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Japan and America on its side. But that's what the Britain had been doing since the wars with Louis XIV, that is defeat a stronger enemy by being the...
  6. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    What return do you expect on all this investment? Why enlarge shipyards when you have not got enough orders to fill the shipyards you have? What is the advantage of prefabrication over building things in Shipyards?
  7. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    Modernize your shipyards and ship designs thoroughly, focus strongly on advanced technology and productivity as advantage like the Japanese postwar. Japan is still top 3 shipbuilder today. Note that even Nordic, French and German shipbuilding surpassed British one postwar. In the interbellum...
  8. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...the problem was that American machine tool was more modern, more efficient and more diverse. Adopting, learning and copying from them was fine. Japan and Korea postwar did the same...
  9. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    No. The market share of both West Germany and the US declined from 1965 to 1980 - the decline of the US market share being more rapid.
  10. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    Well, a typical excuse. Britain suffered much less casualties and damages compared to Europe, Soviet and Japan. But this is out of the time frame. The deficiencies in electrification, lack of mechanization in various industries or so were covered by various authors like Chandler, Barnett...
  11. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...as it was driven by the motivation to modernize and develop their industry, and then develop and edit to account for specific German condition. Japan and Korea postwar also begged, borrowed and stole before developing their own products. The most energetic British producers also copied and...
  12. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    Well at the rate he's going, I can see what he's saying being decisively disproven by say an industrialist who studied the period or something to that effect. He is getting there. And machine tools can't do much if you don't have the raw materials to make whatever that tool helps you make...
  13. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    The funny thing is that if I do a keyword search for Japan in this thread the first mention is by you, the most common use is overwhelmingly by you, so I am guessing you are that one guy and your reply was pre-emptive...
  14. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    Well, one guy brought Japan in this topic and I only mentioned Japan postwar only in my reply to him
  15. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    I think when Thomas1195 abandoned discussion of the period 1910-1940 and the comparison between Britain and Germany for appeals to post 1960 and Japan this would normally count as having been proven decisively wrong. Just to nitpick what is actually a well thought and considered post.
  16. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    Both Japan and West Germany, actually. West Germany even surpassed the US in machine tool after that.
  17. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    None of them were European, sorry man
  18. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    And Japan might have been the electronics king on the 1990's and the early 2000's, but it has lagged badly in software development, and certainly by your metric of "if a vital but unseen part, then it's less valuable than being the name on the banner." Android, Apple, and Google, oh my!
  19. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    ...think anyone on this thread has sung the praises of British industry post WW2 (beyond scope of thread), but in the start of the 1970s, the Japanese automobiles were not perceived as much better. By the end of the 1970s anyone with an understanding of motor vehicles would recognize the...
  20. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    I know Bismarck and a Hipper class (herself?) had the stern break off while sinking- never heard of any other nation's ships doing that except when hitting the seafloor or magazine explosion. The German navy did expand rapidly, so insufficient amount of experienced designers is my guess. That...
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