Could unrestricted shipbuilding accelerate British jets?

Without naval treaty limits, might British industrial investment have made jet development begin sooner?

Possibly through indirect industrial spillovers, but naval treaties did not directly restrict aircraft and the two industries followed different development paths.

Naval treaty law and aviation development were separate because the treaties constrained ships rather than aircraft. A larger British shipbuilding programme might still have directed more investment towards power plants and related engineering. Those industrial spillovers could have made jet-engine work easier to sustain. Shipbuilding and aviation remained distinct industries under different regulatory systems, so heavier naval construction would not automatically produce an earlier operational jet.