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Originally Posted by James Langham2
Quite a few factories seem to be intact - Lima is known to exist for example
I was also possibly thinking earlier in the war - WW2 shows examples where an inferior design was left in service and production as it was immediately available
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Navy destroyers and Army tanks would be good examples.
I would say a large number of factories are intact in the U.S. and Canada. Most are outside of the commercial centers of major cities. They lack power and raw materials..... the manpower shortage, more importantly trained manpower (machinists, welders, fitters) have either been drafted or are dead from famine or disease. Concentrating the survivors with that skill set in one region to maximize their potential has to be a government goal.
Fix those three..... electrical power, raw material, and manpower and you can have some working plants again.... Some plants can't operate because they rely on components built at another plant hundreds or thousands of miles away.