WI British Economy Maintains Dominance

Earlier containerisation as its advent lead to a collapse of shipping costs that can only help the Empire. If you can get an earlier start to off-shoring heavy industry to India, whilst retaining the profits and high value design and engineering in the UK, that would help.
 
Could there be a focus on building production in India to take advantage of those resources?

I am not familiar with the industrial potential of India however it might require the full abandonment of the idea that colonies exist to serve as resources for the mother country to use.

Indiea itself doesn;t have a lot of resourcse.. the only inustry that could take off, really, in this timespan would be cloth, and that would not be able to get pushed through the UK Parliament given the strength of the cloth industry at this time.
Muight be better off boosting industry in Canada as that 'advanced' in OTL quicker than anywhere else in the empire. Always surprised me that the germans took the chemical dyes industry by storm, perhaps if the lethargy in organic dyestuff's is not so strong, then this mioght be a place for a 'boom' etc?
 
Arlatan brought up a good point in my prev thread on this:

I'd say that it would have interesting effects on investement patterns, but on the risk is that you see a bubble with excess investment in plant, leading to training and technical education neglected even more than iOTL.

So could it be this leads Britain to decline with a bubble burst instead of slower growth?
 

J.D.Ward

Donor
If the object is to maintain the relative economic superiority of Britain, rather than increase the absolute industrial prduction of Britain, are there feasible events which will reduce the growth of the German and American economies?

For the USA, can the Civil War peter out into a long guerilla war, enlivened by occasional terrorist atrocities?

For Germany, can the OTL Dreikaiserbund not happen? This failure of Bismarck's diplomacy leads to the formation of a Franco-Austrian alliance, including Denmark, which declares war against Germany around 1880.

The Alliance sees itself as an anti-Prussian alliance, and the war aims are to turn the clock back to 1860:

1. Return of Schleswig=Holstein to Denmark
2. Return of Alsace-Lorraine to France
3. Independence of the German States
4. Repayment from Prussia to France of the five billion franc war indemnity of the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt.
 
One little issue though -- the AHC that I based this on* stipulates a PoD in the 1870's; sorry it's second hand, but I had hoped this threadwould be aboutthe effects of British economic strength as opposed to the how...

*(see links first post)
 
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