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Why bother is the comment that springs to mind.
The Windsor was a generation later and not in a wartime timescale
So now, should Vickers have gone down this road instead of churning out Wellingtons?
I don't think Vickers intended it to be this way. The Warwick was built to a spec to which the other contestants cancelled their designs and waited for something more advanced, which appeared as B.12/36 and P.13/36; even before the prototype Warwick had been completed, Rex Pierson of Vickers began to realise that something more advanced than the Warwick would be requested, as it was in those specs.The Wellington was a fill in until more powerful engines were available and production could change to the preferred Warwick.
Vickers factories were only geared up to make geodesic construction aeroplanes.
It's geodetic, btw.
If they could only make aircraft with geodetic type construction, how do you explain them proposing the Type 432 (and building a prototype)?
Also, when Supermarines started building Spitfires, they weren't geared for aluminium stressed skin construction either!