A brief exchange offers different explanations for French orders for reciprocating engines. One participant attributes the decisions to a lack of coherent planning. Alex Clarke instead alleges that orders reflected the importance of the voting district producing triple-expansion engines. No particular ship class or contract is identified, so the disagreement remains an attributed interpretation.
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Competing explanations for French reciprocating-engine orders
The machinery discussion presents a disagreement between incoherent planning and electoral influence as explanations for French engine orders.