Contrivances for people on the railway

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  • Sydney Grew
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    • Mar 2007
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    Contrivances for people on the railway

  • Flosshilde
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 7988

    #2
    I think that now one would need a contrivance that hooked onto the collar of the gentleman standing in front of you on the 8.00am to the city.

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    • David-G
      Full Member
      • Mar 2012
      • 1216

      #3
      Designed specially so that every jerk of the train is transmitted straight down the cord!

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      • gurnemanz
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 7405

        #4
        Is it Edward Elgar jotting down ideas for symphony?

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        • cloughie
          Full Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 22182

          #5
          Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
          Is it Edward Elgar jotting down ideas for symphony?
          Could prove Payneful later!

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          • Eine Alpensinfonie
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 20572

            #6
            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
            Could prove Payneful later!

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            • Radio64
              Full Member
              • Jan 2014
              • 962

              #7
              love the language:
              "..it is always fatiguing.."
              "...an effectual easement.."

              ..sounds like it's been (poorly) translated from French!

              .. a "pad" in a frame.. six or seven inches wide? ...mmmmmmm
              "Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."

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              • ahinton
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 16123

                #8
                It could not be used today, of course, because there'd be nothing on which to hang the thing but, in any case, from the fact that I have not seen a more cumbersome device in a very long time I can only assume that the parent company of this Wryteezy Company must have been Heath & Robinson Ltd.

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