Many Years Ago… Lucas Corporation

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Many Years Ago… Lucas Corporation

Anyone who has owned an English car or motorbike (per 1990's) would understand these...Obviously the reference is to electrical systems made by the Lucas Corporation.

The Lucas motto: "Get home before dark."

• Lucas denies having invented darkness. But they do still have a claim to "sudden, unexpected darkness."
• Lucas -- inventor of the self-dimming headlamp.
• Lucas -- inventor of the first intermittent wiper.

The original anti-theft devices -- Lucas Electric products. Because the theft know, if he need to make a fast gateway, the car would breakdown.

• The three-position Lucas switch -- DIM, FLICKER and OFF.
• The actual three switch settings -- SMOKE, SMOLDER and IGNITE.

If Lucas made guns, wars would not start either.

Did you hear about the Lucas torpedo? It sank.

It's not true that Lucas, in 1947, tried to get Parliament to repeal Ohm's Law. They withdrew their efforts when they met too much resistance.

Did you hear the one about the guy that peeked into a Land Rover and asked the owner, "How can you tell one switch from another at night, since they all look the same?" He replied, "It doesn't matter which one you use, nothing happens anyway!"

Back in the '70s Lucas decided to diversify its product line and began manufacturing vacuum cleaners. It was the only product they offered which didn't suck.

Quality Assurance phoned and advised the Engineering guy that they had trouble with his design shorting out. So he made the wires longer.

Why do the English drink warm beer? Lucas makes refrigerators, too.

• Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
• Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
• Joseph Lucas invented the short circuit.

Recommended procedure before taking on a repair of Lucas equipment:

check the position of the stars, kill a chicken and walk three times sunwise around your car chanting:

"Oh mighty Prince of Darkness protect your unworthy servant."