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Rob Morley
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In article <[email protected]>
Sandy Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Alan
> Braggins <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Nor internal combustion engine pistons, but my grandfather told the
> > story of a buyer at an auction soon after the war finding his newly
> > acquired lorry had oak pistons when the engine siezed - not very
> > long after he had bought it, but long enough that he wasn't able to
> > get his cash back.
>
> Nylon stockings were almost as good and were much easier to fit.
>
That's to make a knackered gearbox run quieter.
Sandy Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Alan
> Braggins <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Nor internal combustion engine pistons, but my grandfather told the
> > story of a buyer at an auction soon after the war finding his newly
> > acquired lorry had oak pistons when the engine siezed - not very
> > long after he had bought it, but long enough that he wasn't able to
> > get his cash back.
>
> Nylon stockings were almost as good and were much easier to fit.
>
That's to make a knackered gearbox run quieter.