[TR] Lucas Electrics

[David Brister]

>The homegrown auto-electrician who rebuilt starters, generators, etc.
>from
>the 60's to present) told me how 'dependable' Lucas starters were.  I'm
>conflicted...please enlighten me...um, encandle me?

I'm fairly sure that that when I was a young lad, British aeroplanes such as 
the Meteor and the Sea Hawk which were powered by Rolls Royce Derwent and 
Nene jet engines used entire Lucas fuel systems including a very 
sophisticated variable swash plate pump which compensated for barometric and 
temperature variations, not to mention differences in specific fuel gravity 
and other things I've now forgotten. These systems kept me and my colleagues 
out of trouble for many hours. I suspect that a lack of routine maintenance 
has earned poor old Joe L his "Prince of Darkeness" label for motor cars.
My Triumph still has it's original dynamo and starter, rebushed and 
re-brushed admittedly, but how many listers would like to fly in an 
aeroplane which had had no maintenance for 40 odd years?
Will put flame suit on now.

David Brister.
!967 TR4A 


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