RANT about modern design

Yes - you could tell by them being left on. ;-) Better types had a timeswitch built in if not cancelled by the steering wheel.

I almost agree - my favourite was the chrome plated horn ring as fitted to Wolseleys, Princesses and the like. They were very satisfactorily sprung so that when coupled with a nice pair of windtone horns, gave a real sensation of letting off steam.

I had a pair of those Lucas windtone horns lying around and have fitted them to the SD1. Had quite a problem finding somewhere to put them - they were far too large to fit where the originals went. Finally settled on between the left inner wing and the undertray.

You may even pay more for the first replacement cartridge(s) than you paid for the printer (e.g. Lexmark).

Worth the effort though, I'll bet.

Have you noticed how odd they sound if only one of them is working? I had the steering box on my Princess replaced by a garage once and they managed to short part of the horn circuit so that one horn sounded whenever the wheel was turned. I drove a couple of hundred yards from the garage before figuring out that the strange high-pitched beeping wasn't coming from an irate Fiat driver, but my own car.