Presumably there is literature on the subject. I might try some googling, unless members already know what is still in print.
I should think there is, but maybe not many people outside dedictaed researchers have picked up on it.
There where very concise details on how a Nissen hut should be built, how quickly, and how many in a given time period, complete with details on exactly how the staff should be worked, all at the TNA now.
I would be surprised if this didn’t extend all the way up through aircraft and engine manufacturing.
It is a fascinating subject and great to see how the Merlin was completed, it still must have been one hell of a task to get extra plants built up for production and create the tooling for mass assembly by unskilled labour.
Aircraft componants must have been another area of sudden and huge demand, take radios for example.
You can’t imagine now that massive push to manufacture large amounts of aircraft and the common tools and jigs required in many different places, from the massive factories to the furniture business down the road.
I can’t imagine that there was much automation in aircraft assembly, I know that the industry as a whole was criticised in the late 1950s for not being so and being inefficient.
Would love to more on subject.
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