[SEL] Japanese engines

[Rob Skinner]

> That has intrigued me as well  . I always figured they were gathered  
> up for
> the metal. Along with every last washer and cotter pin they could  
> find .

Chuck-san,
Surely, there must be SOME really old Japanese iron laying about,  
under a collapsed barn or half buried in a creek.  We Gaijin are  
taught in school that the pre-WWII Japanese were nothing better than  
feudalistic ox drivers, but that's just western propaganda.

This morning I was reading an article, written in 1909, about the  
Japanese coal, iron, steel and shipbuilding industries.  I'm no expert  
and don't care to look up numbers, but I would wager that the Japanese  
industrial capacity in 1909 surpassed the industrial capacity of 90%  
of the worlds countries in 2008.

Young-san, you mentioned a bloke who is your Chuck Wendel.  Is there a  
book available, one with a few pictures, for those of us who don't  
care to learn another language?

Rob