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Old 07-08-19, 07:15 PM
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jackbombay
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Originally Posted by gna
And they all used Whitworth threading and bolts, for the C&V crowd.

I was told many years ago that Whitworth threading was "created" to make it so germans couldn't work on captured enemy planes.

It sounds plausible enough, and I want to believe it enough, that I have not googled it for confirmation.
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