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Originally Posted by 8_10 Brass Cleaner
Chris, a guy called rawcliffe had it before the club, that is he bought it from Balls.
I always wonder wht Issac Ball named some of his engines, clearly Admiral Togo was a famous man, and no doubt in all the papers, and I don't think he had done any damage to the British Empire
Cristiaan Rudolf de Wet was a different matter. One of the celebrated Generals of the earlier anglo Boer war, then in the Boer War proper gave us brits more than one good kicking!. He was probably the best of the Boer leader. By 1903 he had been acting president of the Orange Free State and had toured Europe. Strikes me an odd thing to call an engine after an ememy.
After all, nobody called any engines after Erwin Rommell!
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I guess he just wanted to call the two engines of his order after the opposing generals, however it does seem odd that he called the first one after the enemy - probably he just thought that he was a damn good general and and he was lucky as he got a damn good engine to suit the name !!
