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[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Monday, 8 January 2018 20:38:28 UTC, Scott Dorsey  wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >The electrics are not as bad as legend has it but, again,
> >with todays technology all of it can be fixed.  I have a
> >modern distributor with the whole electronic ignition
> >built-in.  I am going to put a headlight relay in this
> >spring to brighten up the headlights and take the strain
> >of the complicated (and expensive) light switch.  I am
> >going to change all the other lights to LEDs making them
> >brighter and drawing considerably less power from the
> >system thus taking the strain of the alternator and
> >battery.  I already changed the carburetor to one that
> >is considerably more efficient than the tractor carb
> >they came from the factory with.  Trust me, they were
> >never as bad as the legends.  Before it went into storage
> >(for 10 year!) I regularly drove it thousands of miles.
> 
> I learned to drive in an MGB... and although I have to say the later
> ones with 12V negative-ground systems weren't so bad, the 6V systems
> were kind of awful.  Get a GM 1-wire alternator in there, 12V light bulbs,
> get the windshield wiper motor and the starter rewound for 12V and it was
> like night and day....
> 
> >I made regular trips to Canada (where I was a member of a
> >British Car Club) and I drove it numerous times to GA
> >for my Army trips to Ft. Gordon.  A very reliable and
> >fun ride.  But the more I think of it, the more I
> >think it  might be even more fun as an all electric.
> >I wonder, does Lucas make an electric drive?  :-)
> 
> My dad's friend had a sticker "The Parts Falling Off This Car Are Of the
> Finest British Manufacture."  Things got better when they started using
> standard SAE fasteners too.
> --scott
> -- 
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Who do folk think makes the aircraft engine control systems
(both the hydraulic stuff and the electronic/computer stuff)
for most of Rolls Royce's aircraft engines for the widebody 
aircraft market?

Until relatively recently, many of the same people on mostly 
the same sites (but mostly not the same managers) as, back
in the 1970s, used to be called Lucas Aerospace. Yes that 
same Lucas. 

Since the late 1970s it's been through even more changes of 
ownership than VMS has, over similar timescales too.

What used to be the Aero Engine Controls chunk of Lucas 
Aerospace was finally brought in-house a few years ago by 
its long term biggest customer, Rolls Royce (the jet 
engines RR, not the cars RR):
https://www.controlsdata.com/civil-aero/electronic-engine-controls

Also in the 1970s, Lucas Electric Vehicles were pioneering
electric versions of mainstream commercial vehnicles. They
made an electric version of the Bedford CF (think original
Ford Transit van, except Bedford was basically a GM company) 
some of which were powered by sodium-sulphur batteries, in 
a joint venture with Chloride, the battery supplier.

http://vauxpedianet.uk2sitebuilder.com/bedford-97000---cf-e