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Post subject: Re: The Brits Should’ve Won The Space Race  Posted: 28 Jan 2020, 16:55 |
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Username Protected wrote: time for a round of obligatory Lucas Electrics jokes...
Lucas pioneered the intermittent wiper system.
Why do the Brits drink warm beer? Lucas refrigerators. The Prince of Darkness!
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Post subject: Re: The Brits Should’ve Won The Space Race Posted: 28 Jan 2020, 18:18 |
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Username Protected wrote: Anyone willing to ride a rocket built by Lucas? With a smoking cabin!
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Post subject: Re: The Brits Should’ve Won The Space Race Posted: 28 Jan 2020, 20:10 |
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Username Protected wrote: time for a round of obligatory Lucas Electrics jokes... Why are all those silver toggle switches in a British car unlabeled? No need to label them. None of them work.
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Post subject: Re: The Brits Should’ve Won The Space Race Posted: 28 Jan 2020, 20:39 |
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Username Protected wrote: time for a round of obligatory Lucas Electrics jokes...
Lucas pioneered the intermittent wiper system.
Why do the Brits drink warm beer? Lucas refrigerators. Oh I needed that belly laugh today. Only gentlemen of a certain age, of which there are a bunch on BT, can relate to driving a small British sports car, at night in the rain, with Lucas electrics. Or not.
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Post subject: Re: The Brits Should’ve Won The Space Race Posted: 28 Jan 2020, 20:49 |
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Username Protected wrote: time for a round of obligatory Lucas Electrics jokes...
Lucas pioneered the intermittent wiper system.
Why do the Brits drink warm beer? Lucas refrigerators. Oh I needed that belly laugh today. Only gentlemen of a certain age, of which there are a bunch on BT, can relate to driving a small British sports car, at night in the rain, with Lucas electrics. Or not.
Well, my mom had a Fiat.
It always ran, but the car was delivered with a fusebox populated with fuses which were electrolytically incompatible with the spring-loaded blades that held them. You'd go over a bump, and a headlight would go out, then another bump, and it relit (yes, the headlamps were on separate fuses).
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Post subject: Re: The Brits Should’ve Won The Space Race Posted: 28 Jan 2020, 23:36 |
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Post subject: Re: The Brits Should’ve Won The Space Race Posted: 29 Jan 2020, 12:38 |
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Quote: It always ran, but the car was delivered with a fusebox populated with fuses which were electrolytically incompatible with the spring-loaded blades that held them. You'd go over a bump, and a headlight would go out, then another bump, and it relit (yes, the headlamps were on separate fuses). I had a 1967 Cortina GT. (in the 60s) While going through New Jersey inspection the horn didn't beep...when I got to the brake check it beeped, so I asked that guy to remove the fail. He did, and I rolled out with an inspection sticker. Being a good citizen, and knowing why it failed, I stopped a few hundred feet out, opened the hood and cleaned the fuse holder. The guy who failed it initially, saw me, and came running out waving his razor scraper yelling at me... fortunately a couple of other employees ran after him and brought him back before he could attack my inspection sticker. (Jersey inspection, there are hundreds of stories..) My 74 MGB is the same... just have to periodically clean up the fuses/holders...
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Post subject: Re: The Brits Should’ve Won The Space Race Posted: 29 Jan 2020, 17:56 |
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I watched the James Bond film "Moonraker" at the theater and left with the impression that the Brits developed the space shuttle.
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Post subject: Re: The Brits Should’ve Won The Space Race Posted: 30 Jan 2020, 13:21 |
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Username Protected wrote: In any event, that's a German rocket and, as Werner von Braun is portrayed to have said in "The Right Stuff," "Our Germans are better than their Germans." Considering what Von Braun had done, hopefully he never included himself amongst the better ones.
Von Braun's leadership and contributions were vital to the successful development of the infant U.S. space program and he directly impacted the legendary Gemini & Apollo programs, maybe more than any other individual.
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