23-05-2011, 06:20 PM
Trevor, I know this engine very well, but it's unfair to blame the engineers.
It was developed in a hurry as a replacement for the A(+) engine which had battled on for a good forty years.
Unfortunately it is the shareholders and bean counters who shape development and production.
If it was left to us engineers though, we'd be driving around in £100K silk purses.
As to Chinese lathes, yes they are generally poor, but have still turned (scuse the pun) out some very good work on them.
As for Nationality, I believe in the Union and consider myself a citizen of the United Kingdom.
Rob.
It was developed in a hurry as a replacement for the A(+) engine which had battled on for a good forty years.
Unfortunately it is the shareholders and bean counters who shape development and production.
If it was left to us engineers though, we'd be driving around in £100K silk purses.
As to Chinese lathes, yes they are generally poor, but have still turned (scuse the pun) out some very good work on them.
As for Nationality, I believe in the Union and consider myself a citizen of the United Kingdom.
Rob.
