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Paul Mc Cann
 
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In article , owain41276
@stirlingcity.co.uk says...
"Huge" wrote
| Even better. Mount the H and C discs in the tap centres on pivots and
| weight them, so that regardless of the position of the taphead the
| disc is always correctly aligned with the letters upright. Don't
| Rolls do something similar with their hub caps?
| They do. But a Roller is =A3250K, and while these taps were expensive,
| they weren't *that* expensive.


=20

I don't think thats true. I once found a Rolls Royce hub cap and it was=20
nothing special.

Something similiar to this can be found in the hubs of certain buses and=20
lorries. It displays, I presume, mileage. It doesn't rotate with the=20
wheel but can often be seen swinging as the vehicle stops
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Paul Mc Cann