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Letter: Safety hammers

Published 30 September 2000

From Jerry Huxtable

Following on from your piece about safety hammers usually being installed
behind glass
(Feedback, 2 September),
I couldn’t help noticing a sign on a recent train journey saying
“Hammers for breaking windows in an emergency can be
found in the First Class compartment”. As the First Class compartment was three
carriages away, I couldn’t help thinking that the spirit of the Titanic lives
on.

jerry@huxtable.com

Issue no. 2258 published 30 September 2000

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