[SEL] An engine tale from 1916.

[Jerry Evans]

>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 20:56:13 -0000
>From: "Dave Croft" <dave.croft at ntlworld.com>
>Subject: [SEL] An engine tale from 1916.
>
>I was just looking though some old magazines & in a 1925 copy
>of "The Mechanical Boy" they have printed a 1916 tale of a day in
>the life of the Admiralty's engine room somewhere in Scotland.
>I have printed it at
>http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2408324530028520097bGQwLN
>I hope you enjoy it. (It can be enlarged on webshots)
>Dave Croft

  Hi Dave,
         Looked like a good story but unfortunately the server "reset" 
while I was trying to read it and I lost the whole damn thing.
         I normally like to "save" the pic and read it offline  but your 
"webshots" album is done with Macromedia Flash and this does not give me 
that option. On the previous webshots I could save the pic and study it at 
my leisure.
         Sorry friend, I really liked the start of the story but will 
probably never be able to read the rest (unless you email it to me).
         There are still are a number of us that do not have broadband - We 
live on the "blunt end" of the technological divide. Is there a way you 
could load it onto a normal website (ie. - not an "advertising supported" 
site so that the likes of me could also share it ?

         Sorry if I sound "cranky" but that's the way it is.

         I "HATE" webshots these days - it's just getting very 
"commercialised" - sorry, I liked the "old internet".

         Sorry for being "cranky" guys - I love all your posts and articles 
and always follow the links but I get a bit "pissed off" when I have to 
wait for advertising that is totally irrelevant to me and steals my money 
(Our Telkom  "dial up" time) and makes me wait to see what I "clicked" 
.  (No - I do NOT want to buy a condominium in the Everglades! - I just 
wanna see a pic of an old engine! - is that too much to ask?).

         I will never log on to any "webshots" site again (possibly my 
loss) but I'm "sick and tired" of using my connection time to read 
advertising that is totally irrelevant to me.






Keep the revs up (or down)
Jerry Evans
Near Johannesburg in Sunny South Africa.
Tel. (016) 365-5787
Cell: 083 293 7191
Visit our website for old engines in South Africa.
www.oldengine.org/members/evans  

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