At 09:51 AM 8/7/2008, Thomas Prager wrote:
>Joe Lucas or, more accurately, the company bearing his name engineered
>electrical bits for pretty much everything emanating from the UK, and the
>notorious unreliability of Lucas components played a key role in tanking
the
>British car industry in the early 1980s. Make the jump for "If Lucas made
>guns, wars would not start," and other classics.
>
> a.. The Lucas motto: "Get home before dark."
> b.. Lucas is the patent holder for the short circuit.
> c.. Lucas - Inventor of the first intermittent wiper.
> d.. Lucas - Inventor of the self-dimming headlamp.
> e.. The three position Lucas switch - Dim, Flicker and Off.
> f.. The Original Anti-Theft Device - Lucas Electrics.
> g.. Lucas is an acronym for Loose Unsoldered Connections and Splices
>Many more, along with some funny graphics, at Mez.co.uk.
You folks have clearly never dealt with Bosch
stuff contemporary with our cars of
interest. Lucas was a LOT more reliable than was
Bosch. And that Italian company -- Marelli? -- was even worse.
Marc
msmall@aya.yale.edu
Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir!
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