How far could an oil-fired 14-inch Dreadnought variant go, and could Britain build four?
Short answerIt could plausibly be a 23- to 24-knot design, and Britain had sufficient yard capacity to build four.
NotesThe proposed ship is an oil-fired, superfiring 14-inch design capable of roughly 23 to 24 knots. British industrial capacity was sufficient to build four such ships. Battleship-capable yards still went bankrupt during the Anglo-German naval race because they lacked orders. That underused capacity complicates claims that Britain had already reached an absolute spending limit. The paper design is therefore tied to the economics of sustaining the yards and skilled labour needed to build it.