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Re: TR6 mystery flap

To: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@gte.net>, "Joe Flake" <flake@a3115jmf.atl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: TR6 mystery flap
From: "Dean C. Paige" <ecopaige@metro.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:54:37 -0700
Cc: <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
In this context the root of the word is maritime. A scuttle is a small
opening or hatch with a movable lid on the deck or hull of a ship, or on
the roof of a house.

Deano

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> From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
> To: Joe Flake <flake@a3115jmf.atl.hp.com>
> Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: TR6 mystery flap
> Date: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 10:06 PM
> 
> 
> Joe Flake wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 1) It's referred to as the "scuttle vent". (where did the
> > name come from?)
> 
> Probably somebody early on thought it resembled a "scuttle", a curved
> pail used to haul coal.
> 
> Joe Curry
> -- 
> "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
> 
>   -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer

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