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  • Did you know (he declaimed triumphantly, shedding the opera-cloak to reveal an anorak) that during WWII there were a number of accidents (all crown-sheet failures) in American locomotives in use here which were caused by the inability of British footplatemen to read their modern and sophisticated Klinger reflex-type water-gauges?

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

  • Did you know (he declaimed triumphantly, shedding the opera-cloak to reveal an anorak) that during WWII there were a number of accidents (all crown-sheet failures) in American locomotives in use here which were caused by the inability of British footplatemen to read their modern and sophisticated Klinger reflex-type water-gauges?

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

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