Julian Fellowes

And almost all photographs of Titanic being built and, you know, her staterooms coming together, almost all of them are actually the Olympic because Harland and Wolfe completely documented the building of Olympic all the way. They then didn't need to document the building of Titanic very much at all.

And almost all photographs of Titanic being built and, you know, her staterooms coming together, almost all of them are actually the Olympic because Harland and Wolfe completely documented the building of Olympic all the way. They then didn't need to document the building of Titanic very much at all.

what they did was that harland and wolf were paid on a cost plus basis which meant that instead of white style giving them a budget really what they did was they just said look show us your books open books and show us what you spent and then you know your profit will be five percent more than what you spent so actually in a way harland and walk was incentivized that the more money they spent on the the more money they would make there was no incentive to cut corners

what they did was that harland and wolf were paid on a cost plus basis which meant that instead of white style giving them a budget really what they did was they just said look show us your books open books and show us what you spent and then you know your profit will be five percent more than what you spent so actually in a way harland and walk was incentivized that the more money they spent on the the more money they would make there was no incentive to cut corners