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Old 22nd July 2017, 14:55
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I don't like to carp on such an auspicious occasion (have as many more, Tmac, as you wish yourself) but Whittle'd engines don't have con rods and nor do Messrs Pratt's and Whiney's they do have 'wheels' and often enclosures into which one's Chief Engineer can push one when one hasn't tightened a connection or two one should have (but only at standby Full Ahead, anything else would have alarmed Mrs. Varley and her little boy).
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