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Old 12-03-2018, 12:56 PM   #7
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Default Re: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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Originally Posted by updraught View Post
I haven't read it either. Just flipped thru it at the book shop.

However, as a young joey, I was told, by a professor of engineering that what you pay for in a Rolls Royce is the close tolerances.
And yet, when Rolls decided that they needed an automatic transmission, what did they do? They bought Hydramatics from GM! Their engineers decided that was better than what they could build!
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