Daily Archives: September 3, 2024

Let’s Make A Train (2)

 What Does “Make” Mean”? In the 1870s, The Pullman Car Company of the USA sent kits of parts to the Midland Railway for assembly at the Litchirch Lane Carriage Works. Effectively, the Railway was gluing together a giant Airfix kit, although not plastic! But the ebullient Gregg Wallace fronted an episode of “Inside The Factory” first broadcast in 2022 and…

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