Submarine and torpedo production still resembles an enlarged cottage industry in 1939. Standardised factory methods could raise output earlier and reduce the disruption of a wartime transition. Germany eventually made that shift under Albert Speer after the navy moved away from Hermann Göring's Five-Year Plan apparatus. The passage makes production policy an institutional problem as well as an engineering one.
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Moving German naval production into factories
German submarine and torpedo output needs standardised factory methods before wartime pressure forces the transition.