The constructor's department continued studying better-armed and better-protected options even when national priorities made their approval unlikely. British industry retained some unused capacity because skilled workers were protected for repairs and emergency rebuilding, but political caution and the expected postwar economy discouraged larger programmes. D'Eyncourt nevertheless kept experimental design work alive and passed that habit to later constructors such as Stanley Goodall. The video offers this loss of experimental freedom as one possible reason for d'Eyncourt's retirement in 1924.
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Design ambition constrained by politics and treaties
D'Eyncourt's office explored more powerful ships than the government would approve, while treaty limits eventually narrowed his scope for experimentation.