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Christopher Tidy Christopher Tidy is offline
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Default Is our view of old engineering distorted by the products whichsurvive?

Ed Huntress wrote:

It's a magnificent toaster, Chris. I really do appreciate quality, but it
does evoke images of English craftsmen working in dim shops with little
hammers and steam-powered machinery in the background. There will always be
an England. ggg

You're not boycotting England just yet, are you?



Heck, no. You're one of only three or four countries from which we can buy
something for which we can read the instruction manuals. The other ones are
your former colonies. We'd lose our minds without a *few* of them that were
readable.


There wasn't a manual with it. I think they figure you can make toast
without a manual!

Best wishes,

Chris