Re: Time for a historical question Black five versus Ivatt BR 4-6-0

On Jan 25, 10:51 pm, Graeme Wall <R...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <ihmkp31oovk2uv2r2u4jq3dgahff4be...@xxxxxxx>
          The Good Doctor <docnews2...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

Perhaps you are not old enough to remember the days when currencies
were not freely convertible.  Foreign exchange was extremely difficult
to obtain, and good reasons had to be provided before it could be
released.  This was still the case to some extent as late as the
1960s, when people going abroad on holiday or for business had very
strict restrictions on how much foreign currency they could obtain
before their trip.

That situation lasted until around the early 70s, I remember going to France
and only being allowed to take about 10GBP with me in 1973.

It was 1979: the abolition of exchange control was one of the Thatcher
government's first actions. There's probably a social history PhD
in the middle classes' enthusiasm for camping, caravanning and,
particularly, motor caravanning in the 1970s: it meant that you could
travel abroad having paid some portion of the accommodation costs (the
delta between a hotel and a campsite) in advance in sterling. In the
mid-70s, you could spot the middle class neighbourhood by the VW Combi
Carrier conversion with a GB sticker on the back. Now they're the
province of RTTS at Whitsun, but then they were ubiquitous for
teachers.

Burning fuel oil in kettles is dubious: even with 100% boiler
efficiency and perfect valve gear the best thermal efficiency is about
18%. You're always losing the energy it took to boil the water,
because few systems can recover the heat below the boiling point: so
you're losing the heat from bringing it up from ambient to 100C, and
then the latent heat to convert it to steam.

ian

Several friends of my parents always took the maximum allowance each
year, and accumulated it overseas: initially with a trusted friend or
hotelier, later in one case in a numbered swiss account. This was
illegal at the time.

ian

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