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Originally Posted by Markus Becker
Follow up question.
Someone suggested making more Mosquitoes at the expense of heavy bombers. Someone else said this wasn´t possible as the Mosquito needed the work of expert carpenters and that all carpenters with the required skilles were already making Mosquitoes. True?
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I'm sure that deep in the bowels of the British National Archives there lies at least one prewar economic study that compared the estimated number of skilled carpenters with the estimated number of skilled metal workers in the United Kingdom.
The low wing aluminum monoplane was a relatively new technology in the 1930s. As a side note, nearly all wartime fast patrol boats and subchasers were mainly of wooden construction. Steel was too heavy and aluminum welding techniques were not refined enough for efficient mass production. In other words, the shipyards and the admiralty had to compete with other industries for the services of highly experienced carpenters.