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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.” This all happene
by Reason077 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.”
This all happened in the 1970s and early 1980s, long before privatisation.
British Rail itself decided that the APT tilting trains were too risky/radical, and shifted to a more conventional design, the HST.
And the Italians had been working on their own successful tilting technology for years before they bought the APT patents in 1982.