These cars don’t want to be sitting about for long, the alarm system is very effective at draining batteries 🪫
Whist most of Joseph Lucas’s ( the Prince of Darkness) handiwork had be banished by MG by the time ours cars were made, the Lucas 5AS alarm system remained as the last hurrah!
A list of the Prince of Darkness’s achievements:
The self dimming head lamp………. Usually dims to total darkness at the most inappropriate times.
The intermittent windscreen wiper………. Only ever works intermittently and never when raining.
The Lucas refrigerator……. Which is why you Pomgolians drink warm beer, the bloody things never worked.
The 3 position switch……. Dim, flicker and off. The later version had, smoulder, smoke and ignite positions. Interestingly their dip switches had Low and Blow as the positions.
The Lucas anti theft device………Lucas electrics.
Lucas did not invent darkness but they did invent sudden unexpected darkness.
Lucas electrons don’t move at the speed of light, they move at the speed of dark.
And of course Lucas’s finest moment, the Short Circuit.
The Lucas motto: A gentleman should not be motoring about after dark! With the motorcar appealing to a larger market including common folk this was later amended to: Get home before dark!
Lucas. stands for: Loose, Unsoldered, Connections and Splices.
"Keep calm, relax, focus on the problem & PULL THE BLOODY TRIGGER"