slob
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The roots of Lucas electr(on)ics are firmly planted in the Dark Ages when someone asked for light and a Viking called Lukas Lukassen banged his head against a solid rock to make sparks with his tin helmet so that a torch could be lit. Later, a straight descendant of this early lighting pioneer started to make electrical components for motor vehicles, totally unaware of the early lighting experiments by his distant forebear. Another little-known fact are the Swabian origins of some other forefather. (Swabia is in what is now known as South Germany and the Swabians are the Saxon tribe that was shamefully expelled from Scotland for being cheap). So, there may have been some cause for concern by combining alleged hereditary concussion and cheapness when the fabrications by the Prince Of Darkness reached the early automotive market. At least that is what I deduct from having used their products (of course, I may be wrong, this is only my personal view), first in a 1951 Triumph TR2, in a TR6 later and, since 1980 in a Land-Rover 109 V8 a.k.a a Stage One.
So if one is interested in the evolution of Lucas motor electrics since its early years up to date one can basically say that there was little evolution until, at least, 1980: confusing wiring colours, crappy diagrams in which wiring colour changes under way, cheap switches made from the cheapest components available by the cheapest workforce available and some of the lousiest connector lay-outs ever seen since Josef Lukovitch Lukarenko tried to re-wire a Krapovitch half-track in 1917 for the Bolshevik forces during the October Revolution thereby causing an instrument panel fire that eventually led to the explosion of a trainload of artillery ammunition in the enemy camp whereby half of the Tzarist forces were blown into the next week thus allowing for a Soviet State to come into existence and 70 + years of ****ty USSR electrics.
It is also suspected that Lucas Electrics have, over the years, occasioned more additions to the Dictionary Of Foul Language in the UK only than all galley slaves together during the whole existence of the Roman Empire. You will certainly understand my reluctance to illustrate this, although the well-known German Randsteinschlotzer's swearword "@#$$!" seems to be a close derivative of its UK "@#$$!!" rat catcherŒs and night soil collector's counterpart which, in turn, is often used by anyone who has ever come within a mile of anything made by Lucas.
So if one is interested in the evolution of Lucas motor electrics since its early years up to date one can basically say that there was little evolution until, at least, 1980: confusing wiring colours, crappy diagrams in which wiring colour changes under way, cheap switches made from the cheapest components available by the cheapest workforce available and some of the lousiest connector lay-outs ever seen since Josef Lukovitch Lukarenko tried to re-wire a Krapovitch half-track in 1917 for the Bolshevik forces during the October Revolution thereby causing an instrument panel fire that eventually led to the explosion of a trainload of artillery ammunition in the enemy camp whereby half of the Tzarist forces were blown into the next week thus allowing for a Soviet State to come into existence and 70 + years of ****ty USSR electrics.
It is also suspected that Lucas Electrics have, over the years, occasioned more additions to the Dictionary Of Foul Language in the UK only than all galley slaves together during the whole existence of the Roman Empire. You will certainly understand my reluctance to illustrate this, although the well-known German Randsteinschlotzer's swearword "@#$$!" seems to be a close derivative of its UK "@#$$!!" rat catcherŒs and night soil collector's counterpart which, in turn, is often used by anyone who has ever come within a mile of anything made by Lucas.
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