Re: chips for steam oops
Posted by: Ben in maine (IP Logged)
Date: December 19, 2003 07:49PM
<HTML>Fred Hartung spokeof working on a project of guiding canal barges,w/ John Hammond at the castle in Magnolia,just south of Glouscester ,,after countless failures they finally got it to BOUNCE,,,so they called it the BOUNCE,,,,Fred said in a matter of fact way,,,oh you kids know it as radar an sonar,,,,Fred was 94 when he told me this story,,,,Every Monday was another page of history ,,This is the same man that had visited S Roper in the E Boston shop and had seen the tractor,,on contract to A.O.Lombard,then of Dorchester,,later of Waterville,,,,Cheers Ben</HTML>