Lucas electrics

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Wed Jan 2 08:14:51 2002

How about the Napier Deltic diesels and the BR Deltics that they built?

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Huw Davies wrote:

> 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).
>
> Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au
> | "If God had wanted soccer played in the
> | air, the sky would be painted green"
>
>

M. K. Peirce

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Shady Lea, Rhode Island

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