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[Scott Dorsey]

 <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>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. 

Oh, yes.  Lucas does make some very fine stuff, and they make some very
fine stuff for automobiles.  And they did back in the sixties and seventies.

The stuff they made for British Leyland was crap... but that's not Lucas'
fault, that's British Leyland's fault.  I agree that Lucas gets a lot of
bad press for supplying crap when the customer demanded it.
--scott

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