The building holiday restricted the opportunities to develop battleship designs through continued construction. An alternative sketched here would allow Britain and the United States five ships in each five-year period. Smaller allowances for Japan, France and Italy remain tentative, with several possible numbers and intervals mentioned. Continued construction under such limits could have produced a different sequence of designs before the Second World War. The suggestion concerns how regular building changes design development, rather than a settled replacement treaty.
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Limited building could have kept battleship design evolving
A treaty permitting regular construction could have produced different Second World War battleships by allowing designs to develop through successive programmes.