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Very good.

Reminds me of a passage in "Most Secret War" by R V Jones where he relates a story from T. C. Keeley , one of his tutors, who had worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough during the First World War.

Keeley described how on one day the administrators there changed the method of packing bombs into crates and to avoid any incidents the new crates were labelled thus:

‘Caution! The bombs in this crate are packed in a different manner from that formally used.  Compared with the old methods the bombs are now packed upside down, and the crate must therefore be opened at the bottom.  To prevent confusion, the bottom has been labelled “Top”.’

The book is called Wizard War in the US I believe and is well worth a read.

James

James Head BEng CID+ MIIE MIET 
Senior PCB CAD Engineer
Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited
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