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Martin W07/03/2012 10:24:58
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Edward

Your dad's comments are backed up by the stuff issued under the banner of 'Government Property'. As mentioned before this was really dire stuff, made Izal look and feel like a luxury product, but one side was Smooth and the other Rough. I reckon rough for cleaner and wiper and the smooth for a polisher disgust.

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Windy07/03/2012 11:02:15
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I hope we get to the bottom of this over engineered face 16

Windy

Ady107/03/2012 11:25:47
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stuff issued under the banner of 'Government Property'

At school all my pens pencils rulers and rubbers had "property of HM Government" stamped on them

I think they were liberated from the GPO

Doddy10/03/2012 09:42:16
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When I worked for the CEGB (Central Electricity Generating Board) there was a standard specification for everything ~ Yes you've guess it ! even toilet paper

as approved by the Standards Committee in November 1960 specification06/0500/5

It even had to meet the requirements of British Standards BS3137 "Method of Determining Busting Strength of Paper" and I quote "the toilet paper shall fail at a pressure not less than 7.5 lb.per.square inch"

bogrollspec

I'm not too sure but I think 7.5psi is about 2 tins of beans or a curry and 8 pint of John Smiths !

 

Edited By David Dodwell on 10/03/2012 09:45:01

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