Harry Bloomfield wrote:

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It happens that Jim GM4DHJ ... formulated :
when is the last time anybody has seen a rag joint in a car?

Go on then, what is a rag joint?

One of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag_joint - a flexible joint that
used to be used between steering wheel and steering mechanism, or between
gearbox and prop shaft.

I cannot recall ever having seen one on a car, though I have come
across them on old machinery. I have seen like a rubberized doughnut in
the places you describe, serving the same function. I can vaguely
remember having fitted one long ago. It came compressed, with a metal
band around it, which you cut after installing.

Why?

ISTR them on landrovers - though whether that counts as a car or as old
machinery I'm not sure.

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Roger Hayter