[Milsurplus] Re, He was instrumental in building the Bombes

[Nick England]

Miscellany OT -
Yep, the British electromechanical Bombe did leak oil. The Bombe
replica also replicated that feature.
http://www.jharper.demon.co.uk/lub1.htm
Colossus was the paper tape & vacuum tube computer developed at Bletchley Park.

The Lucas factory worker's motto - "A good day's work, and home before
dark"...to drink a warm beer from a Lucas refrigerator, no doubt.

My favorite Charles Babbage quote -
"Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however
admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English
mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility
in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will
pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes,
he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple."