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Re: Rootes product acheives high rate of speed

To: tigers@autox.team.net, Anita Barrett <anitabrt@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Rootes product acheives high rate of speed
From: STUART_BRENNAN@HP-Andover-om3.om.hp.com
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 97 10:56:04 -0600
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     Let's try this again.  My comment got lost last time.
     
     What a coincidence!  Problem and solution in the same morning's 
     E-mail!  And they're located near each other, too.....
     
     Stu


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Subject: Rootes product acheives high rate of speed
Author:  Non-HP-owner-tigers (owner-tigers@autox.team.net) at 
HP-ColSprings,mimegw3
Date:    8/26/97 7:45 PM


I think I would have remembered the following had it been discussed on 
the List; so I'm forwarding it to you. It describes someone's having 
increased performance markedly w/out resorting to high-priced LAT parts, 
or reported overheating...

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Larry Wright, Product Manager
U S Office Products
Phone 202-339-6719
Fax 202-339-6722

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>From:  Wright, Larry
>Sent:  Monday, August 25, 1997 11:18 AM
>To:    '*Rick Fedorchak at home'; '*Rick Fedorchak, @ Office'; '*Rick
>Fedorchakat work'
>Subject:       Rootes product acheives high rate of speed
>
>Giant Medieval War Machine Is Wowing British Farmers And Scaring the
>Sheep
>
>By Glynn Mapes, Staff Reporter of the Wall Street Journal
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>ACTON ROUND, England--With surprising grace, the grand piano sails
>through the sky a hundred feet above a pasture here, finally returning
>to earth in a fortissimo explosion of wood chunks, ivory keys and piano
>wire. 
>
>Nor is the piano the strangest thing to startle the grazing sheep this
>Sunday morning. A few minutes later, a car soars by - a 1975 blue
>two-door Hillman, to be exact - following the same flight path and
>meeting the same loud fate. Pigs fly here, too. In recent months, many
>dead 500-pound sows (two of them wearing parachutes) have passed
>overhead, as has the occasional dead horse. 
>
>It's the work of Hew Kennedy's medieval siege engine, a four story
>tall, 30 ton behemoth that's the talk of bucolic Shropshire, 140 miles
>northwest of London. In ancient times, such war machines were dreaded
>instruments of destruction, flinging huge missiles, including
>plague-ridden horses, over the walls of besieged castles. Only one
>full-sized one exists today, designed and built by Mr. Kennedy, a
>wealthy landowner, inventor, military historian and - need it be said?
>- - full-blown eccentric. 
>Larry Wright, Product Manager
>U S Office Products
>Phone 202-339-6719
>Fax 202-339-6722
>


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