Eeyore wrote:

"Scott M. Kozel" wrote:
Eeyore wrote:

If they thought they could have done better as you seem to suggest, they could
have designed a brand new engine but they didn't.

Well, the British apparently didn't want to make the effort to fund
and build almost 15,000 Mustangs along with with over 16,000 units of
that engine designed for that aircraft. The U.S. did.

It wasn't a question of 'making the effort'. Britain didn't have the manufacturing
CAPACITY. That was recognised very early on and was why NA was asked to design the
Mustang in the first place.

Do you seriously think that Britain was in any position to win the war alone ?

None of the Allies were in any position to win the war alone. It took
a total effort from a whole assembledge of nations for several years
to defeat the Axis.