Could 1935 engineers copy a Boeing 737?

Could Avro Canada reverse-engineer a Boeing 737-200 delivered in 1935?

It would yield important ideas, but contemporary materials, costs, and manufacturing would prevent a direct copy.

Avro Canada could dismantle and study the aircraft, but 1935 industry could not reproduce a 737-200 as built. There is disagreement about the exact bottleneck: one participant points to lightweight aluminium alloys around the wing roots, while another argues that suitable turbine metallurgy existed only at an impractical price. The aircraft could be sent to Britain for wider analysis of its radar, systems, aerodynamics, and engines. Engineers could use those ideas to accelerate technologies they were already capable of developing. The approaching war would make governments more willing to pay for implementation, without making an exact copy of the aircraft possible.