From: J. Forster (jfor@quik.com)
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 16:15:58 PDT
Mil-Veh Co. wrote:
> I was watching the Military Channel about tanks of
> WWII and it reminded me of story about General Motors
> and the Sherman.
>
> As the story goes GM, et al, were producing the
> Sherman's when it came to their attention that the
> Tiger tanks were far better gunned and armoured. Now
> they had a big decision to make, keep making an
> inferior tank of a flawed design with inadequate
> firepower and hope that they could overwhelm the enemy
> through force of numbers or stop production and retool
> to meet the German challenge.
>
> In the final analysis it was the time delay and cost
> factor that won. Halting production and retooling
> would have cost GM a lot of money based on the terms
> of their government contract. [snip]
"Give them the third best to go with,
the second best comes too late,
and the best never comes."
Sir Watson Watt - inventor of radar
-John
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