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<blockquote data-quote="chankly bore" data-source="post: 86144" data-attributes="member: 317"><p>Yeah, you've got to remember that Britain didn't get a Marshall plan, and everything was made on pre-war machine tools that were near clapped out after 6 years of making hard bits of metal to throw at the Hun. I remember an apocryphal tale that illustrates this; when A.J.S. moved from the Plumstead Works, they suddenly found they couldn't bore crankcases in line any more, they asked a retired employee who hadn't made the move. "Ah", he said, "you've not taken the piece of wood"-which was what they used to lever things into line. As I said, apocryphal, but if you read about post-war British industry, close to the truth, and the reason for "selective fit" components. Try explaining selective fit to a Toyota employee.Recommended reading, "The machine that changed the World". by James P. Womack, et.al. I'll go back to reading poetry now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chankly bore, post: 86144, member: 317"] Yeah, you've got to remember that Britain didn't get a Marshall plan, and everything was made on pre-war machine tools that were near clapped out after 6 years of making hard bits of metal to throw at the Hun. I remember an apocryphal tale that illustrates this; when A.J.S. moved from the Plumstead Works, they suddenly found they couldn't bore crankcases in line any more, they asked a retired employee who hadn't made the move. "Ah", he said, "you've not taken the piece of wood"-which was what they used to lever things into line. As I said, apocryphal, but if you read about post-war British industry, close to the truth, and the reason for "selective fit" components. Try explaining selective fit to a Toyota employee.Recommended reading, "The machine that changed the World". by James P. Womack, et.al. I'll go back to reading poetry now. [/QUOTE]
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