Colin Rosenstiel (Colin Rosenstiel)) gurgled
happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Yes, regulators have a lot to answer for too. However, the decline of
British manufacturing industry was accelerated by a technical
conservatism of which this was just one example. Another one that was
pilloried to me in Brazil in the late 1960s was rivetting pressure
vessels when the world had moved on to welding.

Hmmm. Isn't an aircraft fuselage a "pressure vessel"? They're _still_
rivetted (well, except for composite ones, obviously)...