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Richard Dye
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Thats still almost a hundred years!
Speedy23
master brummie
One forgets the passage of time....you are correct!
NoddKD
master brummie
Are Tommy cookers still available. Haven't seen/used one since I left the Royal Marines.they will come in handy when we are out in the field to have brew up on me tommy cooker i had forgot about them.
mw0njm.
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And hence why Dickens wrote a “Christmas Carol”. It was originally going to be a pamphlet called : “An Appeal to the People of England on behalf of the Poor Man’s Child”, but he decided to write a story to get his points across instead. Viv. Viv, my favorite Christmas movie, particularly in...
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NoddKD
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Thanks for that.yer
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And hence why Dickens wrote a “Christmas Carol”. It was originally going to be a pamphlet called : “An Appeal to the People of England on behalf of the Poor Man’s Child”, but he decided to write a story to get his points across instead. Viv. Viv, my favorite Christmas movie, particularly in...
However that is not the Tommy cooker that I knew.
The military one was a flat metal box affair containing eight hexamine blocks.
Very efficient at warming rations and boiling water but left a thick coat of black tarry stuff on the mess tin.
Happy days.
NoddKD the messy cook.
NoddKD
master brummie
Thanks for the speedy response, as always BHF on the ball.
That's similar but near enough to the military version.
chris wood
WOODY
THINK THIS WAS 1953 FOR QWEENS CORANATION
