Originally Posted by
jackbombay
I was told many years ago that Whitworth threading was "created" to make it so germans couldn't work on captured enemy planes.
It sounds plausible enough, and I want to believe it enough, that I have not googled it for confirmation.
Sorry, no. Whitworth predates airplanes by many years--it was the first national threading/bolt standard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britis...dard_Whitworth