Invisible progress
Bruno von Rotz
07/02/2021
07/02/2021
Sometimes you can't see the progress. In 1963, the British Ford subsidiary surprised everyone with the new Consul Corsair model. The car was intended to close the gap between the Cortina and the large Ford saloons. The completely new bodywork looked extremely modern.
But the real progress was not visible at all. For the first time, Ford England used printed circuit boards in the Corsair! Instead of electric cables, they supplied power to the instruments and controls on the dashboard.
60 years later, one can only smile at the large electrical conductors and the simple architecture. I wonder what the mechanics thought back then when they had to repair these electrical connections?
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