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“I… had had mechanical training and was very much impressed with the wonderful equipment that was put at the disposal of the Navy. It was a world in which there was no such thing as a secondhand battleship. You cannot win a war on secondhand equipment; we have had this well demonstrated recently. It was equally impressive to me later when I left the Navy and went into the building world and discovered how unscientific and secondhand most of the approach to housing was-- how people really drifted from one old house to another, and the few new houses that were built were without any benefit of engineering.” - DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.149), 1946
