INSPIRED by observations here about silly comparisons, a colleague has presented Feedback with a whole book of them – “but be careful with it, it’s for my Mum”. The Queen Mary 2 Book of Comparisons (Cunard, ISBN 095424513X) reprints parts of The Queen Mary – a Book of Comparisons, published in 1936. So now we know that though one funnel of the old one could accommodate three US-gauge steam locomotives, the sole exhaust thingy of the new one is big enough for four Eurostar trains (disappointingly, widthways only). Our favourite so far: the weight of the old one would need…
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