Hi all,
Was just checking out the forum and the pictures of some Atlas Vans got me thinking? How many British cars have used the dome type clear and amber parking/indicator lights! This is one of the things I love with Post War British Engineering & Design. Basically I see it as "if it ain't broken don't fix it" which has its merits, as here we are in 2011 and still able to purchase many parts as they had no obvious reason to be modified or changed.
There are so many examples of this, look at the 48 Phase 1 Vanguard the motor was good for that, good for the Ferguson tractor and good for the TR sports cars and was still in use up to the late 60's. If it were a Japanese motor, the thing would have been updated every 2 years and be impossible to get parts for. The same can be said of the Morris A Series motor, how many different cars did they put it in and when they needed a bigger version the B Series was created, which surprisingly was basically a big A Series motor.
Another personal example was when I was driving around in the 80/90's in a 75 model Range Rover. To the untrained eye it looked the same at the new model, so many people though I had a new car! The same happened when I moved from that in 96 to and 85 Land Rover County, they still though I had a new car!
Here's a chance to cast your mind back and think of and list parts or whatever that British Engineering & Design created that deserve credit for their simplicity and longevity and stuck around while the others came and went.
Cheers Stephen
Was just checking out the forum and the pictures of some Atlas Vans got me thinking? How many British cars have used the dome type clear and amber parking/indicator lights! This is one of the things I love with Post War British Engineering & Design. Basically I see it as "if it ain't broken don't fix it" which has its merits, as here we are in 2011 and still able to purchase many parts as they had no obvious reason to be modified or changed.
There are so many examples of this, look at the 48 Phase 1 Vanguard the motor was good for that, good for the Ferguson tractor and good for the TR sports cars and was still in use up to the late 60's. If it were a Japanese motor, the thing would have been updated every 2 years and be impossible to get parts for. The same can be said of the Morris A Series motor, how many different cars did they put it in and when they needed a bigger version the B Series was created, which surprisingly was basically a big A Series motor.
Another personal example was when I was driving around in the 80/90's in a 75 model Range Rover. To the untrained eye it looked the same at the new model, so many people though I had a new car! The same happened when I moved from that in 96 to and 85 Land Rover County, they still though I had a new car!
Here's a chance to cast your mind back and think of and list parts or whatever that British Engineering & Design created that deserve credit for their simplicity and longevity and stuck around while the others came and went.
Cheers Stephen
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