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From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 22 Jul 2010 16:37
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:14:36 +0100,
The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>
wrote in <1jm1ub1.o5f5l71g06z04N%totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>:
> Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote:

>> I've said it many times before, but the single statistic that amazes
>> me most from the TT is the year that the first 90mph average was done
>> - 1937. Which, for me, simply defies belief.

> Fewer telephone poles then, as well.

Eh? I'd have thought more -- no fibre-optics and microwave relays...

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From: The Older Gentleman on 22 Jul 2010 17:15
Dr Ivan D. Reid <Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:14:36 +0100,
> The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote in <1jm1ub1.o5f5l71g06z04N%totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>:
> > Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote:
>
> >> I've said it many times before, but the single statistic that amazes
> >> me most from the TT is the year that the first 90mph average was done
> >> - 1937. Which, for me, simply defies belief.
>
> > Fewer telephone poles then, as well.
>
> Eh? I'd have thought more -- no fibre-optics and microwave relays...

Maybe there were more and the riders knocked them all down...

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From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 24 Jul 2010 11:53
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:15:46 +0100, The Older Gentleman
<totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>
wrote in <1jm1xce.jk2of81ttn10jN%totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>:
> Dr Ivan D. Reid <Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> wrote:

>> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:14:36 +0100,
>> The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>
>> wrote in <1jm1ub1.o5f5l71g06z04N%totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>:
>> > Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote:

>> >> I've said it many times before, but the single statistic that amazes
>> >> me most from the TT is the year that the first 90mph average was done
>> >> - 1937. Which, for me, simply defies belief.

>> > Fewer telephone poles then, as well.

>> Eh? I'd have thought more -- no fibre-optics and microwave relays...

> Maybe there were more and the riders knocked them all down...

...and we all know they are still trying...

(I can still remember when we got a telephone line at our farm about 1955,
the PO supplied a trunk network down the road; my father had to go into the
forest and cut down 4 or 5 tall trees and erect them down to the road for
the engineers to install the lines on. We got electricity a few years later,
but luckily the govt. supplied the poles and stepdown transformer; as share-
farmers we'd never have been able to pay for it ourselves.)

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
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