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"LOL I was tempted to post some of his cutlery but didn’t want to completely confuse folks"
I made a 500 mile round trip to Heathersage to replace my 25 year old Mellor £3 wooden spoon last year. Came back with £500 worth of Pride 🙂
Pretty much anyone who had the old cast alloy Workmate in their shed probably had a pair of Mellor's garden sheers in there too.
"Tarmacadam"
and before that - plain old Macadam. Although MacAdam didn't invent 'Tarmacadam' his nickname was 'Tar MacAdam'. He had a tar factory up the road from here but it didn't seem to occur to him to mix his tar manufacturing (which he used for waterproofing ropes) with his road building.
Alex Moulton's pioneering small-wheeled bicycle
Which directly inspired the
Never thought I would see a pic of Reg Varney on STW.
Crikey.
A British designed train wreck ? 😀
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^^ Just noticed he couldn't find an "E" in his play set.Lol 😀
Can we have Punk?
Can we have Punk?
Oh hells yes
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This is a great story!
…the simple British plug !!
it's a lovely bit of design. https://www.fastcodesign.com/3032807/why-england-has-the-best-wall-sockets-on-earth explains why.
The downside is that it's big, ugly and massivly overspecced for most purposes.
Roadsigns? Unique?
Turns out that image is a hoax. But I can't edit it because this forum is so awesome. So it will just have to stay there forever.
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Was going for that pretty sure once saw a drawing that showed the rear thruster rotation being controlled by a standard bicycle chain
^^^ and that I guess 😐
"Was going for that pretty sure once saw a drawing that showed the rear thruster rotation being controlled by a standard bicycle chain"
True, the nozzles are actuated via a chain drive. I suspect it is a bit more than just a standard bicycle chain though....
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Sorry Kayak23 - That was invented by 3 american guys apparently. One of them comes on here every now and then to remind us all how lucky we are.
How about:
Rugby
Cricket
Football.