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> The UK invented tilting train technology, and it was given away to foreign corporations instead of being licensed and exploited in the UK. It wasn't given aw
by Aloisius 11mo ago
> The UK invented tilting train technology, and it was given away to foreign corporations instead of being licensed and exploited in the UK.
It wasn't given away. Fiat Ferroviaria purchased the patents for it.
Mind, the UK wasn't the first tilted train (that would probably be PERC in the US) or even the first actively tilted train (either SNCF in France or Deutsche Bahn in Germany).
- dijit 11mo ago> It wasn't given away. Fiat Ferroviaria purchased the patents for it. Those patents were sold in 1982 for the princely sum of £1. This was the pattern that Thatcher presided over, selling national systems for a nominal £1 fee. I think that is essentially giving it away.
- razakel 11mo agoShe also stole a bank.