On 14 December 1891 was the Dutch navy budget for 1892 discussed.(1) The Dutch parliament member Guyot remarked that considering the torpedo department a strange policy was conducted. Some years ago possessed the navy a quite large number of torpedo boats but was she lacking enough personnel. All efforts were done to increase the personnel and with success while although there were more torpedo boats built, there was nowadays enough personnel available. But another problem raised in the meantime namely lacking enough controllable (fish)torpedoes. The navy choose for the Whitehead after testing several kinds of torpedoes and after some improvements were the results acceptable and the crews more or less experienced in using them. Suddenly was decided to order torpedoes from another company namely Schwartzkopff. And again were tests and improvements against a high price necessary to make the Schwartzkopff torpedo as equal to the Whitehead. Apparently was for neither of these two torpedoes a preference. And although the cabinet claimed that it was an advantage to order from two different companies choosing the best torpedo at any time Guyot did not agree with this reason.(1)
Note
1. Henri Daniel Guyot (7 May 1836 Nijmegen, Netherlands-6 May 1912 The Hague, Netherlands), former navy offcier ending his career in the rank of rear-amiral and between 19 November 20 March 1894 and 16 May 1894-21 September 1897 member of the House of Representatives especially for military and naval affaires.
Source
1. General discussions Government budget 1892 chapter VI navy.
