Clarke recounts information from a friend involved in Ajax work, alleging dimensional differences between hulls supplied for modification. He describes variations of inches, including a hull with one side longer than the other. The story is used to challenge the promised economy of manufacturing hulls in Spain and configuring them in Britain. The exchange supplies no measurements or documents with which to verify the allegation. Its relevance is the claimed effect of inconsistent manufacturing on a distributed production arrangement.
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An attributed account of inconsistent Ajax hulls
A secondhand account raises a quality-control problem in the division of work between Spain and Britain.