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Birmingham

Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 2:00 pm
by Stoday
My roots are in the Midlands — Leicester, Derby and Nottingham. Everyone in engineering saw Birmingham as rivals, so:

A hammer was a "Birmingham Screwdriver"

"Brimingham Finish" was highly polished and deeply scratched.

I just wonder if anyone has other names to add to the list.