Kees Kort comments

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The actual building of the Caproni Liberty-engine bomber trimotor was actually very trying.

In a nutshell these were the bottle necks

- the Italian drawings in metrics (meters) had all to be redrawn in inch measures.

   A gigantic task which involved thousands of detail drawings
- the fitting of the Liberty engine necessitated alterations in the design which had to be worked in the drawings
- as the large experienced factories like Curtiss were full with production, the building was given to the relatively inexperienced Standard factory,

   which actually has never build airplanes of this size
- many alterations in the Caproni design were made by Standard which had to be approved by    the Italians, again slowing down the actual building
- as Standard had difficulties building the machine, work was shifted to the Fischer Body works    who could not fit the drawings in their building process

  so ....  again the drawings had to be redrawn

Actually it is a small wonder that the Caproni Liberty bomber trimotor was built at all.

Cost was probably excessive and the machine came much too late (actually after the armistice) and was never used at war.

Think about all those man making the drawings by hand, no computer assisted drawing (CAD) in those times !