On 2006-08-30 21:10:01 +0100, Chris J Dixon said:

Andy Hall wrote:

I've never seen these kinds of pressure flush anywhere else and was
intrigued, so had to look inside the cistern to see how it worked.

About 1964, on a school trip to Paris, I was fascinated to find
that the hotel toilets were flushed by pressing a button, which
seemed to release pressure from an accumulator somewhere, but
buses were stopped by pulling a chain, the reverse of my previous
experience.

Chris

yes, but it was France.....