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Holy smoke, how cool is that?
I'd love to have one to drive around the block and be the envy of all the neighbors!
It's been said before, and I'll say it again, next to parliamentary democracy and penicillin the steam engine is Britain's greatest gift to the world!
OK, the Beatles come close. So does Jenny Agutter. And Charles Dickens.
And that Trevithick steam carriage is a hoot! Imagine that tooling around the streets of London with the new 19th Century only 2 years old.
And I thought it was pronounced TREV-i-thick.
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Actually, Parliamentary Democracy comes from the Greeks, and that is why it is a Greek word. But let us not forget Shakespear, G. Donald Harrision, Churchill, Benjamin Britain, Jacqulin Dupre, Sirs John Bararolli and (?) Beecham, Gustov Holts, and double-decked trams.
Then we can talk about Scotland and wiskey.
Will the Moderator mind if I inject the Balfour Declaration?
But the courage to hold out during the most critical years of WWII is possibly the greatest gift the UK gave N. America.
That steam carriage was indeed an advanced design for the time, using (relatively) high-pressure steam for locomotion. The machinery must have taken quite a battering, though. Most of it looks unsprung, feeling every rock and crack in the street. The driver and passengers had it better, the driver's seat and passenger carriage sat on leaf springs.
Diana Rigg
Ada Augusta Lovelace
Emma Hamilton
and let us not forget that most famous original railfan
Fanny Kemble
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Diana Rigg. Oh baby....
And leave us not forget Diana Rigg. Tre-VITH-ick. I had no idea. I was at a heritage railway and there was a side show of traction engines and steam tractors, lorries and such. They all had license plates and two insurance disks (British proof of insurance mounted in a round brass holder- a neat little item,) one for the road and one for the boiler. There's as much interest in steam road vehicles as rail vehicles over there. Carry on, chaps!
But this,designed only a year later, gives much more of the Trevithick flavor:
All this time, I had not realized his name was pronounced tre-VITH-ick.
I've said it before and I'll say it agian, those Limeys do not screw around!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEjGBgBxSNM
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