WHY? or alternate title: Can one of you Brits explain this to me?

[Russ Gregg]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Yes Richard, probably my most revered Christmas present. We wont talk about it being made in France.

Now that's opening an engineering can of worms.
I may be re-quoting myself but;
You know you are in Heaven when the British are the police, the French are the cooks and the Germans are the engineers, and you know you are in Hell when the Germans are the police the British are the cooks and the French are the engineers.

Take a close look at a Citroen 2CV sometime, definitely unique but possibly the most ridiculous vehicle ever made in volume (and yes I am patriotically choosing to ignore the Reliant Robin as a mass production vehicle).

Really enjoyed this thread. I think the clever bit of the Oddy is that it probably reaches 90% of the grease fittings from only 2 or 3 locations and allows you to pump it on the ground instead of in whatever awkward position you had to get in to connect it. Two guys could make good time with this.