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...the simple British plug !!
What do you consider a truly British design or a design that’s native to its country?
^That's half French.
^That’s half French.
The original design was British, then developed with the French
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I LOVE this new forum...
How about a Mini? That just came to me, not sure why
Stop trying.
Isn't 'that' mini mostly German?
Ah the German variant of the Mini...yes, very British...;-)
This forum
Did you mean the original Mini, the one designed by the half-German Greek guy?
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Anglepoise lamp
Penguin Book Covers
The Robin Day polypropylene chair
Harry Beck's Underground Map
The new Mini is built in the UK, and was designed by someone holding joint UK/US citizenship, so I think that counts.
How about a Richard Rogers building:-
How about a Richard Rogers building:-
Except that it was designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano. And they're both Italian.
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Is it safe yet?
Dr Martens. I mean, Dr Martins.
This forum software truly is crap.
Brompton, and of course its predecessors.
Moulton
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Rolls Royce Pegasus engines together with the rest of the Harrier jump jet.
muppetwrangler
How about a deck chair?
All Apple products from the original iMac....and the AMD chip that drives a lot of them too.
Louise Brown ? https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/people/ivf-40-louise-brown-life-worlds-first-test-tube-baby/
So that explains the Louise thing... All just some mad science gone wrong
Why are there two 'no entry signs?
QUOTE: <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">Rolls Royce Pegasus </span>
(yes I can't be arsed trying to get the forum quote to work)
The Pegasus was my first thought but I thought I would double check. You might want to check the original inspiration for vectored thrust.
"Cash" "point"
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Austin Metro/Montego?
I mean apart from Lada (which at least had instant cult status) did anyone else in the developed world make anything quite as bad?
Even in the third world they at least just bought tooling for old cars and kept them going.
lets not confuse design with invention. Though the concept of vectored thrust was not novel, the pegasus was the first engine to be able to achieve it through design. Nobody else had been able to achieve it first, so absolutely qualifies as a British design. Bit like saying the Mini doesn't qualify because the concept of a car was already established.
You mean the third world, the world of objective contents of thoughts?
Sums up British design to me... eccentric solution to a non-existent problem.
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A LandRover is not truly unique though, based on the idea behind the Willys Jeep!
The original full colour-coded fire extinguishers maybe? The EU even adopted it but dumbed the colour down to a band on a red extinguisher so they all look like CO2 ones.
The story of its design is brilliant. In practice it was brilliant. It’s only flaw was they named it after the wrong person. It was named after Herbert Morrison but it was Ellen Wilkinson’s project.
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">"Why are there two ‘no entry signs?"</span>
The one on the left with a white background can have exemptions put on a plate below it, the other one can't.
Beaten to the Millau by... at least three hours.
The windmill, probably not, however the Broads River Cruiser, most definitely
How does one edit the size of the image without having to guess the dimensions?
I’m also glad I’m not the only David Mellor nerd here
Mini 1 = Issigonis
Mini 2 = A team of brits being shouted at by Germans (i did some of the tooling for the cooling.)
Mini 3 = Essentially what they've got now, mostly German (think it had almost a complete platform change in 2007 or 2008)
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Thought the roundabout was a yank invention?
Anyone already mentioned the TV ?
Millau eh? OK, the architect is British. But the bloke who made it stand up is French.
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Designed by the person who also designed the Spitfire undercarriage, for his daughter, so she could get on a bus whilst still holding his grandchild. Ok so it chopped off a few fingers in America, but anyone born after 1972 probably sat in one.
Milky80The original full colour-coded fire extinguishers maybe? The EU even adopted it but dumbed the colour down to a band on a red extinguisher so they all look like CO2 ones.
Please don't be in a fire with me!
Old CO2 Black
Old Water Red
Was going to say the Black & Decker Workmate but
Ronald Price Hickman OBE was, it turns out, born in South Africa..
</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">I’m also glad I’m not the only David Mellor nerd here
LOL I was tempted to post some of his cutlery but didn't want to completely confuse folks
How about
Robin Nicholas
OK not that unique.
1) Napalm
2) The London Taxi
3) The Concentration Camp
4) Long Forked Hardtails
5) The Tank
6) Bike Parks (not shure about this one but hey for better or worse let's take the
credit)
7) Some great motorbike designs before the suits arrived
8) Hovercraft
BTW my MG Montego was fast as f...k and I loved it.
That was the point I was making but without any emoji's it kind of read funny. Seeing as the edit function didn't work I thought I'd just leave it and see if someone spotted it #winky emoji#
That Mini up there ^^ is British built but it’s a BMW.
[i]This[/i], on the other hand, is a PROPER Mini!:
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You sure about that Milky 😉 😮 🙂
Tarmacadam