Brilliant French ingenuity 🇫🇷🍾🍷
Marston Matting steel planking (PSP) used to store empty wine bottles on a farm in Normandy.
Steels planks like this were originally used to quickly create temporary airfield runways and marshalling in France after D-Day.
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Eric Ravilious was killed #OTD in 1942 when the aircraft he was in during a search & rescue mission off Iceland failed to return. From the countryside to war, his depiction of Britain in the 30s & early years of #WW2 remain an incredible legacy, eighty years after his death.
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Efficiency minister Jacob Rees-Mogg spent £1,300 of public money travelling to Wales by car.
A return train ticket would have cost £98.
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🤔 Why don’t rails get hot in Europe? The truth is they do.
☀️ But in countries typically hotter than ours, rails are stressed to withstand higher temperatures. 🌡️
📖 Read why …