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Add to that an educational system which puts more emphasis on classics than engineering. That comes from a Public School educated elite.

Goes much further back than that. Possibly 1920s-30s though the war offered a stay of execution and broken rade patterns meant we continued to make many of our doestic items into the 1950s. Fron there you are lookig at failure to modernise, failure to observe trends for exports, poor labour...