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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking Subject: Re: boat propulsion - miniature computer-controlled steam plant? Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:30:48 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: <usn133$3krvo$1@dont-email.me> References: <m1a5nbihcl.fsf@void.com> <usacb8$iaqn$1@dont-email.me> <m1ttljchkr.fsf@void.com> <usb32u$mpjb$1@dont-email.me> <usi5v7$2ea8v$1@dont-email.me> <usic9v$2fll8$1@dont-email.me> <usknjc$329n7$1@dont-email.me> <uskomi$32ie5$1@dont-email.me> <usl1ga$34frv$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:31:15 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1d42f0bcb3951056ad9038c9317de0de"; logging-data="3829752"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+U2BoP1zySFz/+SvF8dIzVBLF+JJr6cZo=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:ieGhCGttZjb2n3sKkw4x4l0Dn1Y= X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V16.4.3505.912 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <usl1ga$34frv$1@dont-email.me> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 16.4.3505.912 X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 240301-2, 3/1/2024), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 2324 "Peter Fairbrother" wrote in message news:usl1ga$34frv$1@dont-email.me... A story I heard, don't know whether it is true or not, is that just before WW2 the British Government ordered Excel to make lots of BCAs. Excel (or whoever) then continued to pay design royalties to Boley/Leinen right through 1940. Ouch! Postwar, the design rights were considered to be spoils of war. Peter Fairbrother ------------------------ The US paid the German manufacturer DWM $412,520 in 1928 to settle a patent dispute over features of the Springfield rifle taken from the 1893 Mauser. https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=15846 I've read but can't find where that Britain and Germany both bought 20mm aircraft cannon from Oerlikon, all with barrels made from German steel.