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[Steve Firth]

I think you'll find that most of them are experts on heaps.

[Duracell Bunny]

I resemble that remark ...

[Tony Williams]

Bought out by a Canadian company afair, who only wanted the car parts side, so later sold the aerospace business to TRW.

TRW then sold it to the US aerospace company, Goodrich.

I used to do work for Lucas Aerospace, Hemel, and then for Goodrich when they moved to Pitstone Green. Say what you like about the old Lucas Industries but some of their recent aerospace kit (the A380 generators and control electronics for example) is impressive by any standards.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

They were Lucas Aerospace before being sold.

I know it's fashionable (and has been for years) to knock Lucas, but I don't really see the modern 'equivalents' being so much better. Or indeed the majority of the contemporary and comparable alternatives. They are all constrained by the same factors that made some Lucas products unreliable - extremely tight budgeting car by makers being the main one.

The very worst electrics I had on any car was the Delco installation on a Bedford van. Just about anything that could go wrong did. ;-)

[Huge]

TBH, it's just a joke. The worst electrics I ever had on a car were the Bosch ones on my Porsche 924.

[Steve Firth]

Ducellier - produced the only alernator that I have known to crumble into green dust within two years.

[Huge]

French?

[Mark]

Oh you must need one of these then

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[Steve Firth]

Indeed, on a Citroen as well to make things worse.