{"id":45308,"date":"2021-03-25T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45308"},"modified":"2021-03-25T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T14:57:28","slug":"qotd-lucas-the-prince-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/03\/25\/qotd-lucas-the-prince-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Lucas, the Prince of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 25px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Joe Lucas \u2014 or, more accurately, the company bearing his name \u2014 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 &#8220;If Lucas made guns, wars would not start,&#8221; and other classics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lucas motto: &#8220;Get home before dark.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Lucas is the patent holder for the short circuit.<\/li>\n<li>Lucas &mdash; Inventor of the first intermittent wiper.<\/li>\n<li>Lucas &mdash; Inventor of the self-dimming headlamp.<\/li>\n<li>The three position Lucas switch &mdash; Dim, Flicker and Off.<\/li>\n<li>The Original Anti-Theft Device &mdash; Lucas Electrics.<\/li>\n<li>Lucas is an acronym for Loose Unsoldered Connections and Splices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Andrew Stoy, <a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/399791\/joe-lucas-prince-of-darkness-british-electrical-system-jokes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Joe Lucas, Prince Of Darkness: British Electrical System Jokes&#8221;, <em>Jalopnik<\/em><\/a>, 2008-08-04.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Lucas \u2014 or, more accurately, the company bearing his name \u2014 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. 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