Originally Posted by
birmingham
... ... reminiscent of British Leyland in the 1970s (and we know what happened to them). ... ...
Ouch. With a handle like birmingham, presumably you can recall the Lord Stokes one about not being in the business of making cars for the secondhand market. But they were always rubbish at cars. Trucks and industrial machinery were what they were good at. That is where there truly is a comparison with the Super Puma. Just as the 225 is an upgrade of the 330, in the UK, a very large proportion of the trucks delivering your internet shopping are an upgrade of 70s and 80s Leylands with DAF written on the front. The Sud Aviation stuff has Airbus written on it but it's not helping at the moment.