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Old 16th Dec 2019, 11:21 am   #74
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I always thought that in the UK a phonograph referred to a cylinder machine such as the Edison Gem. A gramophone played a flat disc.
The term 'RIG' again applies to an articulated lorry with a separate motor unit and one or more trailers, hence a 'set' of parts. J.
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