Lucas, the Prince of Darkness
• Lucas is an acronym for Loose Unsoldered Connections and Splices.
• The Prince's last words to his son: "don't go riding after dark"
• 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: HIGH and BLOW
• 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 Ohms Law. They withdrew their efforts when they met too much resistance.
• To owner of a Land Rover: "How can you tell one switch from another at night, since they all look the same?" Owner: "It doesn't matter which one you use, nothing happens!"
• During the 1970's, Lucas diversified its product line and began manufacturing vacuum cleaners. It was the only product Lucas ever offered which didn't suck.
• Lucas Quality Control often advised the engineering department that their designs had problems with shorting out. Engineering always made the wires a little longer.
• Why do the English drink warm beer? Lucas made their refrigerators, too.
• Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, and Joseph Lucas invented the short circuit.
• Lucas systems actually use AC current; it just has a random frequency.
• How to make AIDS disappear? Give it a Lucas parts number.
• Lucas won over Bosch to supply electrics for the new Volkswagens so cars from the Black Forest have electric systems made by the Prince of Darkness.