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Old 23rd Jan 2006, 17:16
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Peter Barron
 
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I did know about Charlie Chaplin being English but never really rated him, each to their own I suppose, I found Stan Laurel much funnier.

For some reason Americans seem to think that they were the first and best in everything even when they are not.
I have a model American Steam Engine, its called the J Class, it was a Streamliner Engine in the 1930s and very fast.
The model is made by an American company and has the history of the Engine on the box.
According to them the J Class was the fastest Steam Engine in the world ever made.
So my question to them is What about the Mallard, everyone knows that the fastest steam locomotive ever made was the A4 Mallard, its never been beaten, so why say the J Class is the fastest when its not, I just can't see the point of them saying that.

Errol Flynn did not take Burma

Peter.
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