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Factories change purpose
Vehicle factories, component suppliers and engineering companies were redirected toward military production.
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1939–1950period
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Context and interpretation.
Wartime conversion is a manufacturing story: machine tools, labour, interchangeable parts, materials rationing and accelerated development. After the war, factories and skills had to be redirected again, shaping the vehicles of reconstruction and the expansion of mass motoring.