"Heath Robinsonian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2011, Laurie R. King, Pirate King",
          "text": "Later, when I was not in quite such a vulnerable position, I decided that it was a ridiculously convoluted, Heath Robinsonian piece of machinery, a bit much even for Mycroft.",
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          "ref": "2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 127",
          "text": "In the eyes of the anti-Bismarck fronde, the chancellor's remarkable web of transcontinental commitments looked less like a system than a creaking Heath-Robinsonian contraption, a flimsy joist-work of ‘plasters and patches’ designed to avoid the pressing choices that confronted the German Empire in an increasingly dangerous world.",
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