Contrivances for people on the railway

[Sydney Grew]

[Flosshilde]

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.

[David-G]

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

[gurnemanz]

Is it Edward Elgar jotting down ideas for symphony?

[cloughie]

Is it Edward Elgar jotting down ideas for symphony?

Could prove Payneful later!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Could prove Payneful later!

[Radio64]

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

[ahinton]

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.