“Even Rolls Royce up till 1980 had the Oil Slinger/backwards thread on the Rear Crank Shaft. After that they put a real seal there.”
Rear Main Seals cost about $10 to replace. A heck of a lot of work to access (sometimes, depending on design), but that isn’t an issue in initial design.
Who the hell is making decisions for those clowns?
“Who the hell is making decisions for those clowns?”
The same fools who basically banned guns and forbade self defense.
The Brits have always excelled at engineering complex solutions to simple problems.