Quote Originally Posted by abellringer View Post
Sadly I've no idea of how designs came about, but the then design office only had a couple of ''decent'' designers, the head was a hydraulic engineer I believe with his flagship design being a smaller than usual car jack. !!?? It seems there's a pattern to oversize transfer ports, the MKIII had the same problem. I was just front line repairer, and service technician, with no involvement of design.
Was that the time of the Technical Director, later MD, Harold Resuggan? He had his name on several W&S patents including the PTFE head of the Vulcan and could be opposed to others ideas I was told