Quote Originally Posted by Albionmad View Post
My dad was a development engineer who worked for BL back in the golden days of the70s. He would be assigned to test engines for economy, performance and durability. Oftentimes he'd carry out the designated tests and then perform his own during his lunch hour. He invariably obtained better results using his own parameters only to be told by the graduates on high that he should do as he was instructed. I remember him coming home head in his hands because his job brought no satisfaction.

He took early retirement at 50, started his own business and is still going strong at 83.
The only car BL produced that was any good in that era was the Triumph Acclaim and that was virtually a Honda
I know someone, now well retired, who in the early 70’s used to work on random testing of gearboxes on one of the lines at Longbridge.

He said that when he was failing so many, rather than address the quality issues they downgraded the criteria needed to pass the tests. He said many were cr** prior to being fitted.