On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:10:44 +0100, Tom Anderson
 wrote:

>On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, J. Chisholm wrote:
>
>>
>>> 06:30:52 on Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Mr Thant 
>>>  remarked:
>>>>

>>> 
>>> Vary large elastic band?
>>
>> It's a long time since I saw you post such a sensible proposal.
>>
>> You wind it up on braking, and it could occupy all that dead space 
>> between bogies. After all you can make airplane fly by that method...
>
>And run cottonreel tanks!
>
Were they a class on the Lancashire and Yorkshire?

G.harman