Lucas electrics

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Tue Jan 1 22:57:21 2002

At 10:23 PM 1/01/2002 -0500, John Lawson wrote:

> Having owned Jags, MGs, Triumphs, etc... I always appreciated the
>little bit of humour (yes, I know but it is English) that observed:
>
>
> "The reason most Englishmen like warm beer is because they all have
>Lucas refrigerators."

Well we had an English Electric 'fridge which worked fine (and long,
purchased in 1963 and still getting the beer cold). I guess English
Electric must have been a large conglomerate with 'fridges being a minor
sideline (high speed jet fighters and computers being other more
"interesting" things they built).

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