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I think I would have remembered the following had it been discussed on
the List; so I'm forwarding it to you. It describes someone's having
increased performance markedly w/out resorting to high-priced LAT parts,
or reported overheating...

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From: (email redacted)
To: Larry Wright
Date: 25 Aug 1997 13:26:20 -0500
Subject: FW: Rootes product acheives high rate of speed
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Larry Wright, Product Manager
U S Office Products
Phone 202-339-6719
Fax 202-339-6722

>----------
>From: Wright, Larry
>Sent: Monday, August 25, 1997 11:18 AM
>To: '*Rick Fedorchak at home'; '*Rick Fedorchak, @ Office'; '*Rick
>Fedorchakat work'
>Subject: Rootes product acheives high rate of speed
>
>Giant Medieval War Machine Is Wowing British Farmers And Scaring the
>Sheep
>
>By Glynn Mapes, Staff Reporter of the Wall Street Journal
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>ACTON ROUND, England--With surprising grace, the grand piano sails
>through the sky a hundred feet above a pasture here, finally returning
>to earth in a fortissimo explosion of wood chunks, ivory keys and piano
>wire.
>
>Nor is the piano the strangest thing to startle the grazing sheep this
>Sunday morning. A few minutes later, a car soars by - a 1975 blue
>two-door Hillman, to be exact - following the same flight path and
>meeting the same loud fate. Pigs fly here, too. In recent months, many
>dead 500-pound sows (two of them wearing parachutes) have passed
>overhead, as has the occasional dead horse.
>
>It's the work of Hew Kennedy's medieval siege engine, a four story
>tall, 30 ton behemoth that's the talk of bucolic Shropshire, 140 miles
>northwest of London. In ancient times, such war machines were dreaded
>instruments of destruction, flinging huge missiles, including
>plague-ridden horses, over the walls of besieged castles. Only one
>full-sized one exists today, designed and built by Mr. Kennedy, a
>wealthy landowner, inventor, military historian and - need it be said?
>- - full-blown eccentric.
>Larry Wright, Product Manager
>U S Office Products
>Phone 202-339-6719
>Fax 202-339-6722
>


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I think I would have remembered the following had it been discussed on
the List; so I'm forwarding it to you. It describes someone's having
increased performance markedly w/out resorting to high-priced LAT parts,
or reported overheating...

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Is this a coincidence or what? A problem, and a possible solution in
the same morning's E-Mail. And they're located quite close together,
too.

Stu


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Subject: Rootes product acheives high rate of speed
Author: Non-HP-owner-tigers ((email redacted)) at
HP-ColSprings,mimegw3
Date: 8/26/97 7:45 PM



Larry Wright, Product Manager
U S Office Products
Phone 202-339-6719
Fax 202-339-6722

>----------
>From: Wright, Larry
>Sent: Monday, August 25, 1997 11:18 AM
>To: '*Rick Fedorchak at home'; '*Rick Fedorchak, @ Office'; '*Rick
>Fedorchakat work'
>Subject: Rootes product acheives high rate of speed
>
>Giant Medieval War Machine Is Wowing British Farmers And Scaring the
>Sheep
>
>By Glynn Mapes, Staff Reporter of the Wall Street Journal
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>ACTON ROUND, England--With surprising grace, the grand piano sails
>through the sky a hundred feet above a pasture here, finally returning
>to earth in a fortissimo explosion of wood chunks, ivory keys and piano
>wire.
>
>Nor is the piano the strangest thing to startle the grazing sheep this
>Sunday morning. A few minutes later, a car soars by - a 1975 blue
>two-door Hillman, to be exact - following the same flight path and
>meeting the same loud fate. Pigs fly here, too. In recent months, many
>dead 500-pound sows (two of them wearing parachutes) have passed
>overhead, as has the occasional dead horse.
>
>It's the work of Hew Kennedy's medieval siege engine, a four story
>tall, 30 ton behemoth that's the talk of bucolic Shropshire, 140 miles
>northwest of London. In ancient times, such war machines were dreaded
>instruments of destruction, flinging huge missiles, including
>plague-ridden horses, over the walls of besieged castles. Only one
>full-sized one exists today, designed and built by Mr. Kennedy, a
>wealthy landowner, inventor, military historian and - need it be said?
>- - full-blown eccentric.
>Larry Wright, Product Manager
>U S Office Products
>Phone 202-339-6719
>Fax 202-339-6722
>


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Let's try this again. My comment got lost last time.

What a coincidence! Problem and solution in the same morning's
E-mail! And they're located near each other, too.....

Stu


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Subject: Rootes product acheives high rate of speed
Author: Non-HP-owner-tigers ((email redacted)) at
HP-ColSprings,mimegw3
Date: 8/26/97 7:45 PM


I think I would have remembered the following had it been discussed on
the List; so I'm forwarding it to you. It describes someone's having
increased performance markedly w/out resorting to high-priced LAT parts,
or reported overheating...

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Larry Wright, Product Manager
U S Office Products
Phone 202-339-6719
Fax 202-339-6722

>----------
>From: Wright, Larry
>Sent: Monday, August 25, 1997 11:18 AM
>To: '*Rick Fedorchak at home'; '*Rick Fedorchak, @ Office'; '*Rick
>Fedorchakat work'
>Subject: Rootes product acheives high rate of speed
>
>Giant Medieval War Machine Is Wowing British Farmers And Scaring the
>Sheep
>
>By Glynn Mapes, Staff Reporter of the Wall Street Journal
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>ACTON ROUND, England--With surprising grace, the grand piano sails
>through the sky a hundred feet above a pasture here, finally returning
>to earth in a fortissimo explosion of wood chunks, ivory keys and piano
>wire.
>
>Nor is the piano the strangest thing to startle the grazing sheep this
>Sunday morning. A few minutes later, a car soars by - a 1975 blue
>two-door Hillman, to be exact - following the same flight path and
>meeting the same loud fate. Pigs fly here, too. In recent months, many
>dead 500-pound sows (two of them wearing parachutes) have passed
>overhead, as has the occasional dead horse.
>
>It's the work of Hew Kennedy's medieval siege engine, a four story
>tall, 30 ton behemoth that's the talk of bucolic Shropshire, 140 miles
>northwest of London. In ancient times, such war machines were dreaded
>instruments of destruction, flinging huge missiles, including
>plague-ridden horses, over the walls of besieged castles. Only one
>full-sized one exists today, designed and built by Mr. Kennedy, a
>wealthy landowner, inventor, military historian and - need it be said?
>- - full-blown eccentric.
>Larry Wright, Product Manager
>U S Office Products
>Phone 202-339-6719
>Fax 202-339-6722
>


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