Reminds me of the old saying "Do you know why Brits love warm beer?"
"Because they have Lucas Refrigerators"
Other Lucas Jokes include ( they also built the electrics for the old Brit cars Triumph, MG, Land Rover, etc). They had a strong competitor in the unreliability domain Smiths Instruments. Smiths never got the credit they deserved though because their failures never left you stranded.
To top it all off my 6 week old scrambler aborted its POST and refused to start this morning until I took the key out and put it back in due to a "glitch" in the security system ... classic Lucas getting back at me for my comment yesterday :-(
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The Lucas motto: "Get home before dark."
Lucas denies having invented darkness. But they still claim "sudden, unexpected darkness"
Lucas--inventor of the first intermittent wiper.
Lucas--inventor of the self-dimming headlamp.
The three-position Lucas switch--DIM, FLICKER and OFF.
The other three switch settings--SMOKE, SMOLDER and IGNITE.
Lucas dip-switch positions: LOW and BLOW (Bruce Miller,
www.hermit.cc)
The original anti-theft devices--Lucas Electric products.
"I've had a Lucas pacemaker for years and have never experienced any prob...
If Lucas made guns, wars would not start either.
Did you hear about the Lucas powered 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!"
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.