Heath Robinson BrE

He was called in to look into the design of the Heath Robinson.

The name is a play on the artist Heath Robinson.

I imagine it as like something drawn by Heath Robinson.

Heath Robinson was not a very good machine.

A Heath Robinson drawing was recently offered for about £800.

I cannot guarantee it and neither can that Heath Robinson zoo.

Colossus did not have the second tape of the Heath Robinson design.

It looked rather like a Heath Robinson step ladder.

Or a great Heath Robinson machine for social engineering?

However the general engineering was at the Heath Robinson level and failed to inspire confidence.

Newman produced a functional specification of what was to become "Heath Robinson".

It seemed a pretty crude and Heath Robinson set up, that bit at least certainly not a triumph of engineering.

The overall effect was one to set Heath Robinson spinning gaily in his grave.

These levels offer a Heath Robinson situation in which one of Clyde's children has been placed.

An edition published in 1904 was illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.

In 1921 Heath Robinson visited the company's pits and was commissioned to produce its 1922 calendar.

The original Heath Robinson was a prototype and was effective despite a number of serious shortcomings.

It was often referred to as the "Heath Robinson chaff modification", due to its complexity.

Before Colossus they made a machine called "Heath Robinson".

The books were published in hardback, with the first illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.

The first machine was dubbed Heath Robinson but the much faster Colossus computer soon took over.

It occurs as early as 1915, in cartoons by W. Heath Robinson.

Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson and others.

Oh, you mean Heath Robinson.

The original book was written and illustrated by W. Heath Robinson and published in 1912.