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March 25, 2021

QotD: Lucas, the Prince of Darkness

Filed under: Britain, Humour, Quotations, Technology — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 01:00

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.

  • The Lucas motto: “Get home before dark.”
  • Lucas is the patent holder for the short circuit.
  • Lucas — Inventor of the first intermittent wiper.
  • Lucas — Inventor of the self-dimming headlamp.
  • The three position Lucas switch — Dim, Flicker and Off.
  • The Original Anti-Theft Device — Lucas Electrics.
  • Lucas is an acronym for Loose Unsoldered Connections and Splices

Andrew Stoy, “Joe Lucas, Prince Of Darkness: British Electrical System Jokes”, Jalopnik, 2008-08-04.

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