Dear Tony,
Thankyou for your thorough reply. Clearly you know your engine houses, so
we all know where to got to from now on! Back to the ill. in the vol.: I
thought it was somewhat impossible that such a remnant could survive for too
long... amazing it was standing at the time really. V.good vol., and very
informative by the way - I have a horrible habit of speed reading - but this
vol. refuses such a poor habit!!!
I am sorry to raise this (doesn't apply re above), and my pet hate is
quite well known. To all budding Authors, may I respectfully request that you
do not equate £-s-d to decimal... it just 'don't work out', and will leave
those unaccustomed and without any knowledge of £-s-d up the creek without a
paddle, and leave your work inaccurate to all sorts of wrong
interpretation by future generations long after we are gone. The Bank of England will
always supply a table to work out real time value on request, and it only
needs a page of your book to make it very accurate. So, please, always quote
£-s-d when your research shows it, never, please equate it to decimal, and,
even if you won't bother with the table, please leave it as £-s-d so future
generations can wok it out for themselves and won't make a hash in.of the
accuracy of monetary value! Thankyou.
Regards, Bernard
|