The Brits have always excelled at engineering complex solutions to simple problems.
My favorite was their aluminum navy ships. Worked great...until hit with a missile - then it burned itself up.
In Cmdr Edward Ellberg's book Under the Red Sea Sun" he mentions that U.S. salvage pumps started with no problem, but the British ones were pure hell - all kinds of convoluted procedures to go through before they started.
That book is one Helluva read - typical American "Can Do" ingenuity gets things done while all the experts say it couldn't. (Just one of many examples: raises a 600' sunken Italian dry dock in nine days with a handful of Americans, when they said it would take six months and hundreds of salvage people.) Lots of positive reviews along that line.