[Milsurplus] Chicken or Egg Question

[J. Forster]

Perhaps, but I'm not entirely convinced:

Because of the huge amount of war production, things were farmed out to
companies that had available production capacity.

During the 30s, radio receivers were a hot commodity and many small
companies sprung up to assemble them. Building a BC-221 is not so
different than a 30s vintage high end broadcast receiver. These smaller
companies were a logical fit for smaller production runs, like the BC-221.
Bigger outfits would build ARC-5s and even bigger outfits complete
airplanes.

Bottom line is, altrhough politics is awlays an issue with government
projects, I'm unconvinced the contractors were politically chosen.

FWIW,

-John

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> There were so many models of the BC-221 because there were
> a lot of congressmen who wanted jobs in their districts.
>
> As it was in WWII, so it is today:  it's not totally about who
> can build what to specification.  It's also about which congressman
> gets how much pork to take home to the folks.
>
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