On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:07:13 -0000, "Bob Smith \(UK\)"
bob@nospamplease wrote:


"Paul Mc Cann" wrote in message



...........and a machime to x-ray your feet

Never heard of that. Was that back in the days when radiation was good for
you?


Oh yes.

They were called a Pedoscope and it was part of the ritual in any
Clark's approved supplier of kid's shoes.

First the assistant measured the feet with a gauge (as today), then
try the shoes on, and finally stand under pedoscope to see the feet in
a fluorescent screen.

This is roughly what they looked like, although the picture is an
American model

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/s...fluor/shoe.htm


The ones that I can remember were a tall box with an aperture like the
one in the picture but with slots on the sides and top and system of
mirrors so that the kid could see in the top or front, assistant one
side and mum or dad on the other.

One reason that they disappeared is that you could also see if a shoe
had been badly made and several nails were missing or knocked in at
odd angles.

I reckon that they had disappeared by the early sixties.





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