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Except that It's not too fanciful as a joke of how far things might go. The oversizing is similar to what we see in modern cruise ships. The velodrome appears odd, but the latest Norwegian Viva ship boasts "a three-level racetrack and the fastest water slides at sea, as well as an upscale food market with 11 unique eateries."
 
Whatever it is it looks a little out of date.
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A shilling and sixpence isn't much for just walking for 3 hours, but pulling a ruddy great barge like that?
Did they have to supply their own plank to lie on?
 
The triangle seemed to be the favourite shape in that era. Wouldn't work today, nowhere to put a remote without it sliding off!

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Exactly 100 years ago - the cover of the 1923 Christmas edition of the Meccano Magazine.

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And a page from the 'Gamages' toy and hobby shop ad inside:

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I looked up the date of that, The Electrical Experimenter Vol. 6 (May 1918- Apr. 1919). I thought it was interesting that they saw the future use of television then, only for lovers to communicate with each other, while by the time George Orwell was writing 1984, so between 1945-1948, it was for governments to spy on their populaces. However, there is a much larger time between them than I had expected. It's also surprising that it looks like a mirror and it's in colour, rather than a cathode-ray tube. Kinemacolor motion picture film was only available from 1909.
 
Pyan said:
Exactly 100 years ago - the cover of the 1923 Christmas edition of the Meccano Magazine.

And a page from the 'Gamages' toy and hobby shop ad inside:
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A 'Diana' air rifle! My pride and joy aged nine.
Me and friends spent many a happy hour at a nearby pond trying to sink tin cans with the rifle - I can still feel that spring when you cocked it.

For some reason it's nowadays seen as an unsafe item for kids of that age
 
mosaix said:
With the weight of the woman to one side I would have thought it would be impossible to balance the thing. Looking at the photo it appears to be stationary and resting on the sewing machines legs.
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It looks to me like the sewing machine legs act more like outriggers to give extra time to the needed corrections. I wouldn't want to ride or pedal in any of the positions on that particular contraption.
 
Was the photo of him taken because he'd been the first Standard OIl service station gentleman to... er... drum up business over the phone...?
 
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