Continuous infrastructure spending removes Royal Navy bottlenecks

What if the Royal Navy maintained its pre-First World War infrastructure spending through both wars and beyond?

Britain retains unmatched large-ship capacity and builds wartime capital ships faster because docks, armor plants, and engine works are ready.

Continued upgrades would allow the dockyards to accommodate Admiral-class ships. Repeating major infrastructure work every six years could eventually provide multiple docks able to handle hypothetical battleships above 100,000 tons by the Second World War. Maintaining armour manufacture and engine works would also avoid important rearmament bottlenecks. The estimate is that readiness of this industrial capacity could shorten King George V-class construction by six to eight months. Lion-class work and still larger projects could then start earlier.