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Originally posted by NigelJK View PostCheck your engine, does it have multiple valves on the cylinder head? In breach of the international treaty covering Patents if it does. That's an act of war in case it escapes your notice.
*Other than in Septicland of course where all sorts of things can come out of the woodwork decades later. The patent on the microprocessor being one.
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The thing that distinguished Triumph from Honda or Kawasaki riders were that the Triumph riders were always at the roadside trying to kick start their bike where as the Honda and Kawasaki riders simply had to turn a key. Triumph went out of business because they built sh*te bikes.
The Austin Princess was an icon that embodied British Engineering it was over engineered i.e. huge and clunky and fell to bits within months.
In many respects the UK hasn't changed and you won't be seeing a renaissance in British Engineering, particularly since everyone is maxed out on their credit cards and have no money to invest.
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Originally posted by NigelJK View PostTBH conversing with bottom feeders is not my style either but even you could do a google search
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tr...w=1280&bih=918
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TBH conversing with bottom feeders is not my style either but even you could do a google search
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tr...w=1280&bih=918
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Originally posted by NigelJK View PostCheck your engine, does it have multiple valves on the cylinder head? In breach of the international treaty covering Patents if it does. That's an act of war in case it escapes your notice.
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Check your engine, does it have multiple valves on the cylinder head? In breach of the international treaty covering Patents if it does. That's an act of war in case it escapes your notice.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostI'm not very old and yet I remember going to a 2-day graduate recruitment event at GEC Rugby back in the day.
Glad I didn't take the role offered, a few years later GEC was no more - it shrank and shrank and became Alsthom or somesuch, if memory serves.
By the noughties all these huge British companies that had existed and thrived 20 years ago were no more*
*And no its not the EU's fault, Germany, and to a lesser extent, France managed to preserve their industrial jewels.
It's simply down to the prevailing British ethos that services were more important.
The final demise of Marconi must have set dear old Arnie Weinstock spinning in his grave.
Quite why he was regarded with such favour by so many successive governments is a mystery wrapped in an enigma (or pound notes as the case might be).
It says everything about the man that when a computer salesman managed by hard work & diligence to exceed Arnie's salary via commission, Weinstock immediately changed the bonus system to ensure it could never happen again.
Thatcher presided over most of the destruction, the old bitch only survived because of that damn war in the Falklands.
Very curious timing that.
<cue Dodgy saying how grateful all we contractors should be for her largesse>
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostLike the indigenous electronics and computer industry, it was screwed up by successive know nothing governments.
Glad I didn't take the role offered, a few years later GEC was no more - it shrank and shrank and became Alsthom or somesuch, if memory serves.
By the noughties all these huge British companies that had existed and thrived 20 years ago were no more*
*And no its not the EU's fault, Germany, and to a lesser extent, France managed to preserve their industrial jewels.
It's simply down to the prevailing British ethos that services were more important.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostAh yes that's the reason the British car industry failed. Johnny Foreigner didn't invent anything and nicked all the British ideas.
Jaguar Rover Triumph was bad enough, joining that to the abortion that was BMC was beyond the pale.
https://www.aronline.co.uk/facts-and...mc-is-created/
Rover Production Director Bernard Jackman was responsible for putting the V8 engine into production. Speaking in 1974 he said: ‘It was one of the smoothest jobs we ever had, for it was a brilliantly designed engine from a manufacturing point of view.’
He added: ‘Its assembly costs are much less than for the four-cylinder engine, and its material costs are not very much more. It was a bit of a squeeze to get the V8 into the 2000 frame, but because it was wide and short we could just do it, with a few modifications to the panels and a few bulges here and there in the underskin.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_V8_engineLast edited by DoctorStrangelove; 30 August 2018, 16:57.
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Originally posted by NigelJK View PostYou mean the multiple patents since plagiarised by every manufacturer from Lada to Ferrari?
Feck me you cretinous Brexiters really do live in a fooking alternative special universe that's all your own.
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If his cars are anything like his other products it'll be a re-run of the British car "industry" of the 70s
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