Britain Had No Margin for Failure Early in the War — So Engineering Became Ruthlessly Practical
Автор: WW2 Tactical Tales
Загружено: 2026-01-02
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September 1939: Britain declares war on Germany with a hidden crisis—every high-performance aircraft bearing came from enemy nations. The RAF needed 800,000 specialized bearings within months. Britain's capacity? Zero.
But in a Northamptonshire factory, an immigrant inventor had already solved the problem five years earlier. What followed was an industrial miracle: production scaled from 2,100 bearings per day to 35,000 in just five years. Women comprised 62% of the workforce. Quality exceeded German engineering. The Luftwaffe's own intelligence admitted: "British engineering came in second place to nobody."
This is the untold story of how a German immigrant's tapered roller bearing design—invented to fix carriage friction in 1876—became the component that kept Spitfires and Hurricanes flying during Britain's darkest hour. Whilst Allied bombers died trying to destroy German bearing factories, Britain was already producing superior alternatives in unlimited quantities.
The ruthless practicality of wartime engineering at its finest.
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