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No time to respond to your teasing now E-S - didn't you see? I have got to splice enough 3 core to make it 300 M down the quay (actually a bit more as Maxwell et al dictate that the plug will come out before the catenary approaches flat).
(I am minded of my first trip on the GTVs. All were expected to be sufficiently grown up to change their own lamps and plugs - including for container reefers. Of course they were not. I was caught by the Chief (John Benn) fixing container cables outside the control room. "If you're stupid enough to do that for them at least have them deliver them to your workshop!". The same man, when co-opting me to help him with the hydraulic starter pumps, responded to my "But there's nothing electrical on this" by tightening a bolt-head down on a length of scrap wiring with a "Satisfied now?". Those fun days are gone for ever. No surprise then, to me, that it's difficult to get our youngsters to go to sea).
Nostalgia is in the name!
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David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
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