Design plans, working drawings, national styles: engineering practice in great Britain and the united states, 1775-1945

摘要

During the summer of 1940, across the oceans of the world, British mer- chant freighters were sinking, victims of Nazi Germany's U-boat campaign. With its very survival in immediate doubt, the British government sent a Purchasing commission across the hostile Atlantic to order replacement Freighters from North American shipyards. To save desperately needed time The commissioners brought complete plans, drafted in Britain, for a general Cargo carrier of 10,000 tons.