On Jul 26, 4:50*pm, Andy Breen wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:32:10 +0100, Graeme Wall wrote:

They were a powerfully good way of advertising a product, and
emphasised that firm/company was right on top of new technology.
Modern, and all that..

Having looked at a photo of a South Devon Pearson loco I'm not so sure
:-)

Just think how old-fashioned, bizarre and quaint a smartphone or an iPad
will look in 20 years, never mind 150...

Indeed, just watch a movie from the late '90s and wonder how we ever
managed with such bricks of phones. Go back to the mid '90s and even
top end phone still had things like extendable aerials. That's not
even 20 years ago. Even more recently, CRTs were still commonplace,
but these days they are already starting to look dated.

Robin