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DaleCooper
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A switch is certainly a part of it but that doesn't tell us what the whole thing is.
DaleCooper
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That would be an extraordinarily elaborate, steampunk sort of doorbell. Sadly it is not a doorbell.
DaleCooper
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That's ok, I rather suspected you'd made a mistake so I'll allow your correction to stand.
No it isn't a thermostat.
DasLunatic
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What are its dimensions? - if it's large enough, is is a counting device
DaleCooper
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I haven't got one to hand but as far as I remember it would be about 100mm (4") diameter. It isn't a counting device as such but it is related to a much larger system involving numbers.
Gah, you beat me by about 2 minutes. Is it the dialing mechanism off an old Bakelite phone?
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DaleCooper
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Yes, but that doesn't answer the question.
Is that a small bell in the top left corner ? Would the toothed wheel act as the striker ? My guess is its the ringer mechanism.
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it reminds me of the back of one of those old "Big Ben" alarm clocks.
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it reminds me of the back of one of those old "Big Ben" alarm clocks.
DaleCooper
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Yes, it is the rear of a rotary dialing mechanism, complicated bit of kit ain't it? They even had a little centrifugal speed governor to control the rate of the pulses.
Your turn...
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The thing in the top left is part of the speed governor I referred to above, the toothed wheel operated the switch which sent pulses to the exchange.
Yeah, it is a bit complicated when you think of the mini computers people carry around in their pockets these days!
Alright, probably a bit of an easy one but who connects the name of a popular song by a famous pop combo from Liverpool and the slave trade?
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kevconnor
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The Beatles song Penny Lane, the street was allegedly named after the merchant James Penny.
Open floor if correct.
Open floor if correct.
Yeah, nice one. In the last couple of years Liverpool City Council considered renaming any road that had a name connected to the slave trade. Then they realised they would have to rename Penny Lane. Not entirely surprising for our council not to have got on to that.
Open floor I guess then folks.
Jona26
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I'll take the floor if I may.. .
From the following list which is the odd one out and why?
Fife, Newcastle, Leeds, Portland.
From the following list which is the odd one out and why?
Fife, Newcastle, Leeds, Portland.
DaleCooper
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Fife:
The only one in Scotland
The only county
The only musical instrument
No letter "L"
Jona26
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None of the reasons given so far are correct in this context
Jona26
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Nothing to do with letters, spelling, etc.
Peter Mugridge
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Portland is the only one which is also a product / brand name, as in Portland Cement.
Jona26
Member
Nope.
They are actually all the same in the main respect but one of them makes itself slightly different from the rest
DaleCooper
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There is a Newcastle Castle, a Leeds Castle and a Portland Castle. Although there are a lot of castles in Fife there is no "Fife Castle".
Jona26
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Sorry not correct with the reasons.
theageofthetra
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I was going to say Fife as its the only one which is a county, but will go with Fife being the odd one out as all the others have a counterpart in Australia.
DaleCooper
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Leeds - the only one that's an anagram of an American automobile marque
Fife- the only one that's in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
You're probably beginning to realise, as others have before you, that "odd one out" questions can be a bit of a minefield.
Fife- the only one that's in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
You're probably beginning to realise, as others have before you, that "odd one out" questions can be a bit of a minefield.
EbbwJunction1
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Is it connected with ships of the Royal Navy?
There have been destroyers with the name HMS Fife, Newcastle and Leeds, and a Frigate with the name HMS Portland, so the latter would be the odd one out.
Alternatively, HMS Leeds was an ex-US Navy Destroyer (USS Conner) given to the RN in 1940 as part of the Lend Lease Programme. That would be another odd one out - the only one not built for the Royal Navy.
Even more alternatively, HMS Portland is the only one of the four ships to still be in service ... !
There have been destroyers with the name HMS Fife, Newcastle and Leeds, and a Frigate with the name HMS Portland, so the latter would be the odd one out.
Alternatively, HMS Leeds was an ex-US Navy Destroyer (USS Conner) given to the RN in 1940 as part of the Lend Lease Programme. That would be another odd one out - the only one not built for the Royal Navy.
Even more alternatively, HMS Portland is the only one of the four ships to still be in service ... !