Wires in a twist
BANGALORE in India is the world's capi- tal of wiring. Its technicians are in a class of their own and, where accuracy and the command of modern systems count, draw business to themselves like supercharged magnets. Swissair, most precise of airlines, entrusts its reservations to them. Even our own dear Post Office tried to get them to rig up a scanner for reading illegible post- codes. When, therefore, the Duke of Edin- burgh, inspecting Racal's electronics plant in Edinburgh, remarked that the fuse-box looked as though it had been put in by an Indian, he could have paid no apter compli- ment. Various members of the Scottish par- liament and spokespersons of the race rela- tions industry immediately threw vapours. They lacked the grace to assume that he might have learned something in life that they hadn't.
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