The Lucas factory motto: “Get home before dark”.
- Joseph Lucas' last words: “Don't drive at night”.
- Lucas denies having invented the darkness, but they still claim the "sudden, unexpected darkness".
- Lucas is the patent holder for the short circuit, inventors of the first intermittent wiper and the self dimming
headlamp.
- The 3 position Lucas switch: Dim, Flicker & Off. The other 3 switch settings: Smoke, Smolder & Burn.
- The Original Anti-theft device: Lucas Electronics.
- If Lucas made guns, wars would not start either.
- 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 about the guy who asked the owner of a Triumph "How can you tell one switch from another at
night as they all look the same?" He replied "It does not matter which one you use, nothing happens!"
- Alexander Graham Bell invented the Telephone, Thomas Edison invented the Light Bulb, Joseph Lucas invented
the Short Circuit.
- We fully understand why the Brits drink warm beer, they have Lucas refrigerators.
- After driving LBC's for a while you don't trust anyone named Lucas.
- When your dynamo dies, you just pull another out of your Lucas pile of bits.
- I have had a Lucas Pacemaker for years and never had any trou...
- How to make AIDS disappear? Give it a Lucas parts number.
- Lucas systems actually uses AC current; it just has a random frequency, that's all.
- Some years ago Lucas won out over Bosch to supply the electrical for the new Volkswagens. So, now the cars
from Schwartzwald will come with electrics supplied by the Prince of Darkness - how appropriate!
EDIT: Link to the Lucas fan page: Worldwide Lucas Electrics Lovers' Fan Page