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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 152731, member: 25&quot;]<i>Jerry rig comes from WWII as near the end the Germans had fewer resources and would put things together with whatever they had.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Not really. It would have to be a British term as the Americans called the Germans krauts, and if it were in circulation in Britain at the time I would have heard it used. Imaginative but not true. A common term for German stuff was ersatz, meaning substitute.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the factors leading to the German defeat was the very high quality of their equipment. They overspent their way out of the war market. Pretty well all the German war material cost up to twice the British equivalent, it was built to high standards and to last, and the British stuff was made to last just long enough.</p><p>The US equipment was more expensive than the British, but they were in a better position to afford it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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