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... wm SPARKING PLUG COMPANY LIMIT fi The Forth Bridge, opened in 1890, took seven years to build and cost £3,600,000. It covers 145 acres and 51,000 tons of steel were used. Painting the bridge occupies a large staff for three years. It is over 1} miles long, with towers 361 ft. high, and carries two railway tracks with footpaths each side. Though there are now bigger bridges, en gineers ...

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... THE¥ DESIGNED /r I IN CHALK H I The first B.S.A. Safety Bicycle, patented on 21 st 1 1 November 1 884. It had a 32 driving wheel and a 20 steerer. Over 1500 were sold. Once upon a time in 1884, to be exact a little group of far-seeing enthusiasts at B.S.A. decided that the time was ripe for the production of a Safety Bicycle. The B.S.A. factory of those days had none of the many technical ...

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... And I'll Tak' the Low Road By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley-Beuttler We sometimes hear tell of what happens when one of our fighters comes down to nought feet or thereabouts over enemy country chimneys get knocked over and the plane comes home with its wings fouled by telegraph wires. Our artist suggests that similar impediments can be just as easily collected over the home front. Here is a ...

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... One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis BEING clipper- built, with very little freeboard, the average Japanese sweet heart will not grieve the aching eye in trousers-- now obligatory, by Government decree, because kimonos demand too much material-- as do some of our more opulent Western babies, for whom our heart has so often bled. Scrapping the kimono will save time as well as money, a ...