Gotta disagree. One of my school/boy scouts friends dad used his GI bill at the end of WWII and became a mechanical engineer. He worked for an appliance manufacturer. I remember my dad and this guy talking. Now this would have been mid 60's. This guy was complaining that he'd designed a new transmission for a washer (that's when I learned that washers had transmissions). He was kinda mad because he turned in the plans/specs and it was sent into machining. He got called in and told "it's over designed and wont wear out fast enough". Was supposed to go into a base model. So there were different quality levels even back then. I think the big difference is that more men knew how to do basic repairs. So they knew that the better quality machines that would last longer were more expensive so they opted to buy those.
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Nuffield Tractor - by Anthony West. The Nuffield tractor story started in early 1945. The British government still reeling from the effects of the war on the economy, approached the Nuffield organization to see if they would design and build an "ALL NEW" British built wheeled tractor, suitable for both British and world farming.
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