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In order to prevent by all means the tank production from stopping, the Design Bureau declared mobilisation of all efforts for saving non-ferrous metals, rubber, armour steel, wires, for making the vehicle easier to manufacture. Absolutely all parts of the tank were revised, the designers used cast iron instead of bronze, replaced rivets by welding, manufactured stamped parts by casting, cancelled intermediate parts. As a result of these efforts, the designers managed to completely exclude 765 component parts, thus considerably simplifying the process of vehicle manufacturing. This was a considerable contribution to organising volume production of the tanks. Simple design, ability to be easily produced in large numbers and high COMBAT CHARACTERISTICS of the T-34 tank created its excellent reputation. Later on it was considered to be what was arguably the best tank of the Second World War.