Wartime aircraft nationalization in Britain had purely practical motives

Evidence

The only significant aircraft firm that was nationalized in the course of the war was Shorts of Belfast, and this was mainly for a purely practical reason: to stop it producing its obsolete heavy bomber. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 470

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader question of how much British industrial policy under Attlee was ideologically vs. pragmatically driven. — connects to: Wartime state intervention forced private property to bow to national-interest priorities — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 149

Broader Connections

• Wartime state intervention forced private property to bow to national-interest priorities #corroborates (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 149