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Re: The German engine situation

Posted by Ray Crawford on Wed Jul 24, 2002 04:11:14 PM

In reply top The German engine situation posted by Cees on Wed Jul 24, 2002 10:21:31 AM


Hello All,

Here's my two cents worth.

I read on a website (of course I forgot which one it is)
that the French had found out post-war that German engine parts production suffered from poor quality control.
If you took a part from factory A and tried to assemble it with a part from factory B (this is starting to sound like an Algebra problem!) it wasn't at all odd for the parts to not fit properly. Of course, if I was hunched over my vertical mill trying to concentrate on my work and I kept being interrupted by "it's the Eighth Airforce again!" or "The RAF is bombing us!" or "Time to move again, the Russians are within spitting distance!", I'm sure I too would have turned out sub-standard parts.
Anyway, I personally would feel a lot more at ease if I knew my engine parts hadn't been made under these conditions, or even worse (for the parts and the workers),
by slave labor.

Ray

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