In message , Rob Morley
writes
In article , "raden"
says...
In message , Christian
McArdle writes
Other Urban Legendish stories abound, including a Navy engineer examining
battleship plans and noticing a space with no access panels. He eventually
cut through the walls with a torch and found a fully equipped machine
shop -
untouched since the thing was built 20 years before and a cockup in the
plans removed the doors..

There's a railway line in China that is dead straight, except for an
inexplicable curved detour half way between two cities. This is because when
the big cheese was asked for the route for the new line, he took out a ruler
and drew a straight line, except for the bump where his finger protruded
from the straight edge.

I presume this one must be an urban legend, unless someone knows
otherwise...

Sounds a bit like the one I heard about when they were designing Telford
- the tracing paper slipped, which is why all the roundabouts are so big

I thought it was so they could have a mini nature reserve in the
middle of each one - lots of nice trees in Telford (in the bits where
I've been anyway).

That would be the job creation scheme which cost millions ... pushing
earth from here to there and trying to make it look pretty

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geoff