Posted by John Nichols on April 15, 2003 at 21:05:22 from 165.91.199.202 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: BECKFOOT layout - arrangements for eating posted by Robert Dilley on April 15, 2003 at 20:41:35:
Dear Robert,
I found this web site yesterday. It is where I got the information that the AGA was installed first in 1929. I stumbled across the site.
Us - Established by Mr Blades in 1898, we are one of the five original Aga distributors, installing the first Aga cookers in England from 1929
Sales - Visit our showroom with working Aga, Rayburn and Coalbrookdale appliances or telephone for professional, experienced sales advice. Home surveys and specifications provided without charge or obligation.
Installation - Our own, fully trained and experienced engineers will carry out installations including flue, gas and oil works.
Service - Full back up from knowledgeable office based staff and service engineers.
And the note which says they were one of the first batch of resellers of the ovens.
So in the last 24 hours I have learnt:
1. About the AGA cooker.
2. The hydralic ram, which I have never seen used, but I did once cause the failure of the some water pipe in Gunnedah NSW when we tested a new pumping station and I have heard the waterhammer bang the pipes in our old house. The hydraulic ram was the first device mentioned in the McGraw Hill book. The book also suggests a 2 day supply in a tank in the roof, and you would need about 2 metres of head to run the shower if they had a shower.
3. The GA liked a glass and jug of wate beside her bed, I wonder if this was fro drinking and or her dentures, I remember both my grandmothers having dentures in the early 50's and the oldest would have been Mary Blacketts age. Are they common in England?
4. I have an old book that I have scanned and OCRed in and it has the H left off Pittsburgh.
5. Bathing in a Canadian lake in winter would not be fun.
By the way Laurence I like the picture of the boat, but I am not sure I would take one to sea.
John Nichols.