How a broken car factory turned into a war machine that could outbuild empires.
During WWII, the U.S. automotive industry retooled in 3 months, producing tanks adjacent to civilian car lines in one campus.
Britain’s entire civilian fleet could be converted to war planes in weeks using modular assembly lines and paint-free maintenance bays.
The Manhattan Project secretly funded thousands of small, unsanctioned kidney-shaped factories that produced tiny components nobody noticed until victory.
Japan’s war economy shifted massive steel mills to produce machine tools for aircraft, paradoxically boosting civil machinery exports after the war.
How a broken car factory turned into a war machine that could outbuild empires.
During WWII, the U.S. automotive industry retooled in 3 months, producing tanks adjacent to civilian car lines in one campus.
Britain’s entire civilian fleet could be converted to war planes in weeks using modular assembly lines and paint-free maintenance bays.
The Manhattan Project secretly funded thousands of small, unsanctioned kidney-shaped factories that produced tiny components nobody noticed until victory.
Japan’s war economy shifted massive steel mills to produce machine tools for aircraft, paradoxically boosting civil machinery exports after the war.
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